- the
carpenter represents unintellectual laymen; John
tells Nicholas: Men
sholde nat
knowe of
goddes pryvetee [God's
private affairs]. Ye,
blessed be alwey...
- on
Wades boot, So
muchel broken harm, whan that hem leste, That with hem
sholde I
nevere lyve in reste... —1.209-14 And
better than old beef is
tender veal...
-
paraphrasing the monk himself: And I
seyde his
opinion was good: What!
Sholde he studie, and make
himselven wood, Upon a book in
cloistre alwey to poure...
- is kut unto my
nekke boon,"
Seyde this child, "and as by wey of
kynde I
sholde have d****, ye,
longe tyme agon. But Jesu Crist, as ye in
bookes fynde, Wil...
- she understood.
After recounting the interaction,
Caxton wrote: "Loo what
ſholde a man in thyſe
dayes now
wryte egges or eyren/
certaynly it is
harde to...
- very
jealous of his wife: A good wyf, that is
clene of werk and thoght,
Sholde nat been kept in noon awayt, certayn; And
trewely the
labour is in vayn...
-
siknes and in helthe, and in all
other degrees be to her as a
husbande sholde be to his wife, and all
other forsake for her, and
holde the only to her...
- by
saying that she had ‘first
stirrd himme’ to know ‘to what
astate she
sholde come.’ She had fled to
sanctuary in
Westminster Abbey so
could not be tried...
- .. A voys he
hadde as smal as hath a goot. No berd
hadde he, ne
nevere sholde have; As
smothe it was as it were late shave. I
trowe he were a geldyng...
- (1827). In The Tale of
Melibee (c. 1386),
Geoffrey Chaucer says: "Certes he
sholde not be
called a
gentil man, that . . . ne
dooth his
diligence and bisynesse...
