Note 31 — FROM THE "PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES."
Reading edition
"He would not give a pulled hen for that text"; that is, "he cared not a straw for it." Pulled = pylled = pilled = plucked.
Reading edition
"He would not give a pulled hen for that text"; that is, "he cared not a straw for it." Pulled = pylled = pilled = plucked.