 | Jill Mann - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 217 pages
...likewise been appliqued on to this barnyard incident. My tale is of a cok, as ye may heere, That tok his conseil of his wyf, with sorwe, To walken in the...morwe That he hadde met that dreem that I yow tolde. Wommennes conseils been ful ofte colde; Wommannes conseil broghte us first to wo And made Adam fro... | |
 | Tony Davenport - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 322 pages
...Bradwardyn, Wheither that Goddes worthy forwityng Streyneth me nedely fo to doon a thyng — . . . 1 wol nat han to do of swich mateere; My tale is of a cok, as ye may heere . . . (CT, VII, 3230-44. 3250-51) Chaucer may be suggesting that, since fables are the vehicles for... | |
 | Seth Lerer - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 446 pages
...taste of a public reared on French romance? He disavows the opinions that the birds express: "I wol nat han to do of swich mateere; / My tale is of a cok, as ye may heere" (7.3252). Still, he avows that there is a moral to his story. But ye that holden this tale a folye,... | |
 | English philology - 1916 - 698 pages
...words (obviously aimed at the women in the company) with the Wife's words placed immediately after: "My tale is of a Cok, as ye may heere, That took his conseil of his wyf, with sorwe, Wommennes conseils been ful ofte colde; Wommannes conseil broghte us first to wo, And made Adam fro... | |
 | English philology - 1916 - 656 pages
...Chauntecleer and Pertelote." This change in the title is supplemented and emphasized by the Priest: "My tale is of a Cok, as ye may heere, That took his conseil of his wyf, with sonve, To walken in the yerd, upon that morwe That he had met that dreem that I of tolde." Miss Petersen6... | |
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That took his conseil of his wyf with sorwe, To walken in the yerd upon that morwe That he hadde met that dreem that I yow tolde. 
