 An anlaas, and a gipser al of silk, Heeng at his girdel, whit as morne milk; A shirreve hadde he been, and a countour. Was nowher such a worthy vavasour.  The Prologue - Page 13by Geoffrey Chaucer - 1903 - 116 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 226 pages
...day. At sessiouns ther was he lord and sire; Ful ofte tyme he was knyght of the shire. An anlaas, and a gipser al of silk Heeng at his girdel, whit as morne milk. A shirreve hadde he been, and countour. Was nowher swich a worthy vavasour. 360 HABERDASSHERE, CARPENTER, WEBBE, DYERE, TAPICER An... | |
 | Robert E. Lewis - Foreign Language Study - 1973 - 132 pages
...company; the retinue of a king, etc. ; fig. the retinue of a saint. (a) (cl387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.A.363: An haberdasshere and a carpenter, A webbe, a dyere, and a tapycer, And they were clothed alle in oo lyueree Of a solempne and a greet fraternytee. (l389) Lond.Gild Ret. in Bk.Lond.E. 54/24: And also... | |
 | Mann - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 356 pages
...is at first hard to discern, for we may search in vain for evidence of the medieval stereotypes for 'An Haberdasshere and a Carpenter, A Webbe, a Dyere, and a Tapycer' (361-2). 71 But having added these five to the list of occupations in the Prologue, Chaucer makes no... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 324 pages
...355 At sessiouns ther was he lord and sire; Ful ofte tyme he was knyght of the shire. An anlaas and a gipser al of silk Heeng at his girdel, whit as morne milk. A shirreve hadde he been, and a contour. 360 Was nowher swich a worthy vavasour. AN HABERDASSHERE and a CARPENTER, A WEBBE, a DYERE,... | |
 | Herman Cohen - Lawyers - 2005 - 634 pages
...perhaps is not so totally ignored. The " Frankeleyn," the Squire or Country Gentleman " A shirr eve hadde he been and a countour " " was no-wher such a worthy vavasour." Even Skeat was doubtful what this meant, " perhaps . . . (5) Coleridge, A.-G., told the House of Commons... | |
 | Thomas H. Ohlgren - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 528 pages
...arwes" represents the "old" yeomanry — servitor to the landed aristocracy. The five Guildsmen — "An Haberdasshere and a Carpenter, A Webbe, a Dyere, and a Tapycer" — represent the "new" merchant yeomanry, which was achieved by becoming a free citizen of a town,... | |
 | Seth Lerer - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 446 pages
...do: At sessions ther was he lord and sire; Ful ofte tyme he was knyght of the shire. An anlaas and a gipser al of silk Heeng at his girdel, whit as morne milk. A shirreve hadde he been, and a contour. Was nowher swich a worthy vavasour. (1.355-60) The General Prologue nowhere says that a person... | |
 | 328 pages
...sessiouns ther was he lord and sire ; 355 Ful ofte tyme he was knyght of the shire. An anlaas, and a gipser al of silk, Heeng at his girdel, whit as...and a CARPENTER, A WEBBE, a DYERE, and a TAPYCER, members of And they were clothed alle in o lyveree a guiId. J . ' Of a solempne and greet fratermtee;... | |
 | 224 pages
...-At sessiouns ther was he lord and sire; 355 Ful ofte tyme he was knyght of the shire. An anlaas, and a gipser al of silk, Heeng at his girdel, whit as...countour; Was nowher such a worthy vavasour. 360 An HAEERDASSHERE, and a CARPENTER, A WEBBE, a DYERE, and a TAPYCER, members of And they were clothed alle... | |
 | Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster - English poetry - 1916 - 462 pages
...tyme he was knight of the shire. An anlas '•" and a gipser 2s al of silk Heng at his girdel, whyt as morne milk. A shirreve hadde he been, and a countour ; " Was no-wher such a worthy vavasour.•0 360 An HABERDASSHER and a CARPENTER, A WEBBE, a DYERE, and a TAPICER," Were with us eek,... | |
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