[Sca-cooks] [Fwd: Nutmeg in stale ale]

[Gretchen Beck]

--On Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:09 AM -0700 "Laura C. Minnick" 
<lcm at jeffnet.org> wrote:

> S CLEMENGER wrote:
>> Can you quote the original (pertinent) passage from Chaucer, for
>> context's  sake?
>> --Maire
>>
>  From CT, Sir Thopas' Tale. I'm on my way out to an event- I'll try to
> find it when I get home if someone else hasn't found it first.
>
> 'Lainie

Ther spryngen herbes grete and smale
The lycorys and Cetewale
And many a clowe gylofre
And Notemuge to putte in Ale
Wheither it be moyste or stale
Or for to leye in cofre

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There sprange herbes great and small,
The liquorice and the setewall,* *valerian
And many a clove-gilofre, <12>
And nutemeg to put in ale,
Whether it be moist* or stale, *new
Or for to lay in coffer.

toodles, margaret