All 5 Uses of
morsel
in
The Canterbury Tales
- At meate was she well y-taught withal;
She let no morsel from her lippes fall,
Nor wet her fingers in her sauce deep.†Chpt 1.0 *morsel = a very small quantity
- Well could she carry a morsel, and well keep,
That no droppe ne fell upon her breast.†Chpt 1.0
- Is there no morsel bread that ye do keep?†
Chpt 7.19
- * *whit
No dainty morsel passed through her throat;
Her diet was *accordant to her cote.†Chpt 7.20
- For God saith thus by Moses, "They shall be wasted with hunger, and the birds of hell shall devour them with bitter death, and the gall of the dragon shall be their drink, and the venom of the dragon their morsels."†
Chpt 10.24
Definition:
a very small quantity -- usually of food