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Baillif (Herry)

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Mine host in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. When the poet began the second “Fit” of the Rime of Sir Thopas, Herry Baillif interrupts him with unmitigated contempt:—

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“‘No mor of this, for Goddes dignitie!ʹ

Quod our host, ‘for thou makest me

So wery … that

Mine eerës aken for thy nasty speeche.ʹ”


Verse 15327.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Baga de Secrētis
Bagatelle (A)
Baguette dArmide (La)
Bahagnia
Bahaignons
Bahr Geist (A)
Bail (French, bailler)
Bailey
Bailiff
Bailleur
Baillif (Herry)
Bain Marie
Bairam
Baisser
Bait
Bajaderes
Bajulus
Bajura
Baked
Baked Meat
Baker (The)