Note 53 — FROM THE "PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES."
Reading edition
sownynge. Sounding; that is, in consonance with. Sentence = sense. So, also, construe forme and reverence, above, as meaning propriety and modesty.
Reading edition
sownynge. Sounding; that is, in consonance with. Sentence = sense. So, also, construe forme and reverence, above, as meaning propriety and modesty.