...Chaucer's Prologue, on which, in the literature lessons at Cheltenham, Miss Beale never failed to dwell. ' After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensch of Parys was to hire unknowe.' She always had a horror of schoolgirl French, and the practice at one time so common of permitting...

...French of Norfolk and Chaucer refers to another school in the lines : — And Frensch sche spak full faire and fetysly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensch of Parys was to hire unknowe. 289. But while French as a language was dying out in England, the influence of French on the English...

...Englentyne. Ful wel sche sang the servise devyne, Entuned in hire nose ful semyly; And Frensch sche spak ful faire and fetysly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensch of Parys was to hire unknowe. At mete wel i-taught was sche withalle ; Sche leet no morsel from hire lippes falle, Ne wette hire...

..." French because she was ignorant of Parisian French : " And Frensh she spak ful faire and fctysly After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensch of Parys was to hir unknowe." If in the full tide of the fourteenth century writers continued to use dialects which...

...century he was writing these verses, and everybody in England knows them : And Frensch sche spak ful faire and fetysly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensch of Parys was to hire unknowe. This jargon current at Stratford atte Bowe of which the father of our literature spoke is, then, very...

...«Canterbury Taies*, où Chaucer dit de la prioress : And Frensch sche spak fui faire and fetysly After thé scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensch of Parys was to hire unknowe. Le prestige du français était si grand que même les auteurs anglais s'en servent en abandonnant...