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* Chaucer
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Many of the words are spelt differently today and a few have shifted in meaning since Chaucer's time.

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Put the modern spelling beside these words from the passage on the worksheet:

Detail from Chaucer manuscript

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a welle
besyde
certeyn
chirche dore
diffinicioun
fifthe
gentil
he mente
herde I nevere tellen
hir (degree).
housbondes
I can nat seyn
I mighte
I ne sholde
manye
mariage
multiplye
myghte she
nat longe agon
nombre
seyde he
sith
taughte he me
thou hast y-had
to speke
understonde
with-oute lye
yeer
y-nough

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