Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 16 AIL 1524 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Starred Words
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The idea
The text on disk marks words with asterisks and glosses them in the right margin: swoot as sweet, holt as grove or forest, croppes as twigs, corages as hearts or inclinations. Those glosses are the editor's apparatus and not Chaucer's text.
In practice
The glosses belong to the editor.
Where people slip
Apparatus again, per V-9.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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