freelte
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Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
freelte (plural freletese)
- Alternative form of frelete
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; lines 97-100; (This reading only found in Royal MS 17 D XV; others read frelete--see Walter W Skeat (editor), Geoffrey Chaucer, "Index, Freletee" in The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer; Oxford, Volume 6.)
- This al and som he heeld virgynytee / More profit than weddyng in freeltee / Freeltee clepe I, but if that he and she / wolde leden al hir lyf in chastitee
- In sum: he held virginity / Nearer to perfection than marriage for frailty. And I say that frailty's all, unless he and she / Live their lives entire in chastity
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; lines 97-100; (This reading only found in Royal MS 17 D XV; others read frelete--see Walter W Skeat (editor), Geoffrey Chaucer, "Index, Freletee" in The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer; Oxford, Volume 6.)