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90 Throat. THROTT. " And yknet fast with a riding knot, And cast over a perch, and hale along my throte,^ (The Merchant's Second Tale,) Torment. TOURMENT, TUBMENT. " And eke with peine that love me yeveth also, That doubleth all my tourment and my wo." (TIce Canterbury Tales.) " For she is so grete turrnent.'^ (The Romaunt of the Rose,)

  • ' For zurnvent that he had, so wery he was and fente,

And to God above thus he made his pleynt." (The Merchant's Second Tale,) Treason. TRAISOK " He that purchasid the traison^ Of Roulande and of Olivere." (The Dreme of Chaucer,) Truly. TREWELY. A ! quod this sumpnour, benedicite, what say ye? I wend ye were a yeman trevjely.'^ (The Frere'8 Tale,) " Bur trevjehji min owen maister dere. (The Pardoner's Tale.) Twice. TWISE, " Now (quod Pandare) er houris twise twelve, He shal the ese unwist of it himselve." (Troilus ds Creseide.) " I have herd saie eke times tviise twelve, He is a fole that woll foryete him selve." (Ibid.) Upon. OPPON, " When he saw the pangis of deth comyng so fast, Oppon his wife Agea almost his hert to brast." (The Merchant's Second Tale.)