All 8 Uses
pestilence
in
The Canterbury Tales
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And yet *he was but easy of dispense*: *he spent very little*
He kept *that he won in the pestilence*.†Chpt 1.0 * - Mine is the ruin of the highe halls,
The falling of the towers and the walls
Upon the miner or the carpenter:
I slew Samson in shaking the pillar:
Mine also be the maladies cold,
The darke treasons, and the castes* old: *plots
My looking is the father of pestilence.†Chpt 1.1 - And old and angry niggards of dispence,* *expense
God send them soon a very pestilence!†Chpt 3.6 - *enemy in the household*
For in this world is no worse pestilence
Than homely foe, all day in thy presence.†Chpt 4.10 - A wilde fire and corrupt pestilence
So fall upon your bodies yet to-night!†Chpt 4.10 - Look well, that ye unto no vice assent,
Lest ye be damned for your wick'* intent, *wicked, evil
For whoso doth, a traitor is certain;
And take keep* of that I shall you sayn; *heed
Of alle treason, sov'reign pestilence
Is when a wight betrayeth innocence.†Chpt 6.13 - He hath a thousand slain this pestilence;
And, master, ere you come in his presence,
Me thinketh that it were full necessary
For to beware of such an adversary;
Be ready for to meet him evermore.†Chpt 6.14 - This cock, that lay upon the fox's back,
In all his dread unto the fox he spake,
And saide, "Sir, if that I were as ye,
Yet would I say (as wisly* God help me), *surely
'Turn ye again, ye proude churles all;
A very pestilence upon you fall.†Chpt 7.20
Definitions:
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(1)
(pestilence) widespread disease (usually severe); or any severely harmful or evil influence that is hard to get rid of
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)