- is idealized. Most
readers have
taken Chaucer's
description of him as "a
verray,
parfit gentil knyght" to be
sincere but
Terry Jones suggested that this...
-
neuere yet no
vileynye he
sayde In al his lyf vnto no
manere wight. He was a
verray parfit gentil knyght." The
House of Fame, (1379–1380), line 1830–1831: "We...
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labour is in vayn To kepe a shrewe, for it wole nat bee. This
holde I for a
verray nycetee, To
spille labour for to kepe wyves: Thus
writen olde
clerkes in...
-
early as 1160.
Nicholas Vincent, ‘A
Queen in
Rebel London, 1215–17’, in A
Verray Parfit Praktisour,
Essays Presented to
Carole Rawcliffe, ed. by Elizabeth...
- giltes, and to
studie to the
salvacioun of my soule, and
graunte me
grace of
verray penitence,
confessioun and
satisfaccioun to doon in this
present lyf, thurgh...
- 115.2.351. ISSN 0002-8762. PMID 20509226. Parsons, Ben (2011-03-01). "'
Verray goddes apes':Troilus,
Seynt Idiot, and
Festive Culture". The
Chaucer Review...
- reide, And hald in
mynde thar
nobille worthi deid, We lat
ourslide throu verray sleuthfulnes, And
castis us ever till
uther besynes. Till
honour ennymyis...
-
Corinthians (1
Corinthians 13:13). In the
English language, late 13c.,
verray "true, real, genuine,"
later "actual, sheer" (late 14c.), from Anglo-French...
- "trouthe is the
hyest thyng that man may kepe" so that he too may be
called "a
verray parfit gentil knyght".
Gardner considers that the Franklin's Tale comes...
- over that a brigge, Upon the
whiche brook ther
stant a melle; And this is
verray sooth that I yow telle: A
millere was ther
dwellynge many a day. The mill...
