Envoy
Published in Cambridge University Press eBooks • Apr 1, 2010
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Authors:
David Matthews
Abstract
How ‘writing to the king’ might be understood in the late fourteenth century is given a clear statement by one fictional Southwark tavern–keeper. In the Canterbury Tales, when the Host turns to the Clerk he asks for a ‘murie thyng of aventures’, warning him to speak ‘pleyn’ so that every one can und...
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