A CLERK THER WAS OF OXENFORD ALSO,
THAT UNTO LOGYK HADDE LONGE YGO
AS LEENA WAS HIS HORS AS IS A RAKE,AND HE NAS NAT RIGHT FAT,
I UNDERTAKE,
BUT LOOKED HOLWE,AND THERTO SOBRELY
NOUGHT O WORD SPAK HE MOORE THAN WAS NEEDE,
AND THAT WAS SEYD IN FORME AND
REVERENCE,AND SHORT AND GUYK AND FUL OF HY SENCENSE,;
SOWNYNGE IN MORAL VERTU WAS HIS SPECHE....
What did you understand from this passage?
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I understand nothing. Please explain... ^^
Try to solve, Study on it..I'm sure You will understand....Thank You..
( See the comment of Rose Iris about this poem !)
How about this one? (Those lines are passages from the poem 'The clerk of Oxenford' ... from 'The Canterbury Tales' by Geoffrey Chaucer)
A clerk from Oxford was with us also
Who'd turned to get knowledge, long ago
As meager was his horse as is a rake
I'll undertake, nor himself too fat
But he looked hollow and went soberly
Not one word spoke he more than was needed
And that was said in fullest reverence
And short and quick and full of high sense
Pregnant of moral virtue was his speech
Well Done...Thank You...