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To: NicknamedBob

What’s “swich licour”?

(No wonder Chaucer’s obsolete. Who can figure out what he’s talking about?)


381 posted on 04/10/2012 5:36:56 PM PDT by Silentgypsy
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To: Silentgypsy
What’s “swich licour”?

And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

And bathed every vein in such liquor,
Of which virtue engendered is the flower;

The words mean the same thing. They are only spelled differently.

383 posted on 04/10/2012 5:47:16 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I didn't feel up to going through a second childhood. That's why I had myself cloned.)
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To: Silentgypsy

switch licour is sap.


386 posted on 04/11/2012 12:34:10 AM PDT by LibreOuMort (Sionnsar my Love, sweet music to my heart, Tha mi fo bhron nach eil thu an seo!)
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