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Bonus Episode: Chaucer’s Purse and the Great Vowel Shift

The History of English Podcast

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The Envoy of the Poem

The final passage of the poem is called the envoy. Chaucer refers to henry as the conqueror of brutuss albion. Henry had deposed his cousin, richard, and he had a dubious claim to the throne. He based his claim on three factors, conquest, royal dissent and having been selected and approved by parliament. Now here's a literal reading of the same passage in modern english. But yet ye pray, unto your courtesy, beit heavy again, or else, tidea.

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