 | Michaela Paasche Grudin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 230 pages
...madame Eglentyne. Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely; And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe. (I [A] 120-26) For the Monk, on the other hand, speech is a more... | |
 | Robert Young, Kah Choon Ban, Robbie B. H. Goh - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 190 pages
...madame Eglentyne. Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely; And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe. At mete wel ytaught was she with alle; She leet no morsel from... | |
 | 1908 - 444 pages
...Bow. Former editors naturally recognized the reference to the lines in the Prol. Cant. Tales (124-6): And Frensh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford arte Bowe, For Frensh of Paris was to hir unknowe. 2. 4. 24 For Lillies Latino, is to him vnknow. The... | |
 | Ben Jonson - English drama - 2000 - 582 pages
...gained at the Benedictine convent of Stratford-le-Bow in the Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: 'And Frensh she spak ful faire and fetisly | After...atte Bowe, | For Frensh of Paris was to hir unknowe' (124-6). William Lily wrote A Short Introduction of Grammar (r.1527) which was the standard Latin primer... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...84, in The Poems of Catullus (trans. P. Whigham, Penguin, 1966) 64:12 [of the Prioress] And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, / After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, / For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe. Geoffrey Chaucer, 0392, General Prologue, 122, in The Canterbury... | |
 | Margaret W. Ferguson - Social Science - 2007 - 520 pages
...name; the narrator pricks those pretensions (some critics say gently; I disagree) by writing: "Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, / After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe." 71 The cultural perception of a difference between the French of Paris and provincial (English) versions... | |
 | Deanne Williams - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 308 pages
...and culture in late medieval England. Let us take another look at the Prioress's French: And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe. (124-6) Most scholars agree that the Prioress's French illustrates... | |
 | Keith M. Denning, Brett Kessler, William Ronald Leben - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 338 pages
...renowned of Middle English writers, illustrate how the language looked after these changes. And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe.1 We can make this passage more understandable by substituting... | |
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And Frensh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensh of Paris was to hir unknowe. 
