Word: sote
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tongge-in-cheeke reporte did me delight ; For suche a wan, though percing to the rote. Be better far than manye a maudlin sote...
...Chaucer to be had. It owes much of its bubbling fluency to Coghill's boldness in sacrificing words and word orders to rhythm and clarity. This is evident in the famed opening lines (usually as much as anyone remembers of the Tales)-Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote-which Coghill deftly turns thus: When the sweet showers, of April fall and shoot/ Down through the drought of March to pierce the root...
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