Middle English Word of the Moment

aresone (v): question, call to account.
Source: The Pylgrymage of the Life of the Manhode: anonymous 15C translation of the first reclension of Guillaume de Deguileville's poem Le Pèlerinage de la Vie Humaine, c. 1355.
Edition: Avril Henry, Early English Text Society 288 (London: Oxford UP, 1985).
Dialect: French-influenced London (?), c1410.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Fire, flood - and now an earthquake.

We must be still waiting on pestilence and famine.
Yscryuen by atte
Mattere:

1 comment:

highlyeccentric said...

If the fires and floods keep up, famine can't be too far away...

Friday, March 13, 2009 5:40:00 AM

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