Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 — Notes to the Canterbury Tales

THE COMPLETE WORKS
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
EDITED, FROM NUMEROUS MANUSCRIPTS
BY THE
Rev. WALTER W. SKEAT , M.A. Litt.D., LL.D., D.C.L., Ph.D. ELRINGTON AND BOSWORTH PROFESSOR OF ANGLO-SAXON AND FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

NOTES TO THE CANTERBURY TALES
'hit oghte thee to lyke;
For hard langage and hard matere
Is encombrous for to here
At ones; wost thou not wel this?'
Hous of Fame ; 860