> >They are not unknown in ME literature. Cf the Wife of Bath:
Also from Chaucer, let's not forget the miller's wife in "The Reeve's
Tale,"
Wel hath this millere vernysshed his heed;
Ful pale he was for dronken, and nat reed.
He yexeth, and he speketh thurgh the nose
As he were on the quakke, or on the pose.
To bedde he goth, and with hym goth his wyf.
As any jay she light was and jolyf,
So was hir joly whistle wel ywet.
Clint
Clinton Atchley
University of Washington
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