Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Cook's Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer
Summary
Geoffrey Chaucer Cook's Prologue has 40 lines, and 5% of them have strong matches at magnitude 15+ in Geoffrey Chaucer. 70% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 25% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.08 strong matches and 4.65 weak matches.
Cook's Prologue
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Melibee's Tale: 39
... hir assautes and hir temptaciouns, so that they han wounded thy soule in fyve places; this is to seyn, the deedly sinnes that been entred in-to thyn herte by thy fyve wittes. And in the same manere our lord Crist hath wold and suffred, that thy three enemys been entred in-to thyn hous by the windowes, and han y-wounded thy doghter in the fore-seyde manere.' [continues next]
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Melibee's Tale: 52
... more desyr it hath to swelwe and devoure." And as wel as ye wolde eschewe to be called an avaricious man or chinche, as wel sholde ye kepe yow and governe yow in swich a wyse that men calle yow nat fool-large. Therfore seith Tullius: "the goodes," he seith, "of thyn hous ne sholde nat been hid, ne kept so cloos but that they mighte been opened by pitee and debonairetee;" that is to seyn, to yeven part to hem that han greet nede; "ne thy goodes shullen nat been so opene, to been every mannes goodes." Afterward, in getinge of your richesses and in usinge hem, ye ...
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Melibee's Tale: 39
[continues previous] ... hir temptaciouns, so that they han wounded thy soule in fyve places; this is to seyn, the deedly sinnes that been entred in-to thyn herte by thy fyve wittes. And in the same manere our lord Crist hath wold and suffred, that thy three enemys been entred in-to thyn hous by the windowes, and han y-wounded thy doghter in the fore-seyde manere.'
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Parson's Tale: 9
... seconde cause that oghte make a man to have desdeyn of sinne is this: that, as seith seint Peter, 'who-so that doth sinne is thral of sinne'; and sinne put a man in greet thraldom. And therfore seith the prophete Ezechiel: 'I wente sorweful in desdayn of my-self.' And certes, wel oghte a man have desdayn of sinne, and withdrawe him from that thraldom and vileinye. And lo, what seith Seneca in this matere. He seith thus: 'though I wiste that neither god ne man ne sholde nevere knowe it, yet wolde I have desdayn for to do sinne.' And the same Seneca also ...
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Parson's Tale: 46
Now comth the sinne of double tonge; swiche as speken faire biforn folk, and wikkedly bihinde; or elles they maken semblant as though they speke of good entencioun, or elles in game and pley, and yet they speke of wikked entente.
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Consolatione Philosophie 2 Prose 4: 1
Thanne seide I thus: 'O norice of alle vertues, thou seist ful [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 2 Prose 4: 2
sooth; ne I ne may nat forsake the right swifte cours of my [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 2 Prose 4: 1
[continues previous] Thanne seide I thus: 'O norice of alle vertues, thou seist ful
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Consolatione Philosophie 2 Prose 4: 2
[continues previous] sooth; ne I ne may nat forsake the right swifte cours of my