Chaucer by John Lawlor;

Author:John Lawlor;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 1968-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

deface spoil pace pass over occupatio a refusal to describe (with the object of heightening) al fatto etc. words fall short of the fact digne fit, adequate feend Devil enditen write moote must cosyn akin

It is the darkest implication of what has hitherto been a source of lighthearted evasion; and in the full course of the tragedye, as we have seen, there is no happy issue for the writer. Compassion can have no adequate reflection in the handling of the story itself. No readjustment is possible: what ‘the story wol devyse’ is unrelenting. So the writer side-steps, and in that mood mere obedience to story seems almost infinitely desirable: ‘gladlier I wol write, yif yow leste . . .’

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