Talk:mendinant

RFV discussion: June–July 2022

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mendinant

The requested Chaucer quotation is variously:

Quotations

1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Somnours Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 82, recto: Ther fore / we mendynantz / we sely freres / Been wedded / to pouerte and continence (please add an English translation of this quotation) Ellesmere (no template for this ATM): page 223 / f. 83r Therfore / we mendynantz / we sely freres / Been wedded / to pouerte and continence 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Sompners Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xlvi, recto, column 2: Therfore we mendicantes, we sely freres / Ben wedded to pouerte and continence (please add an English translation of this quotation) 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Sompnour’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; Charles Cowden Clarke, editor, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. […], 2nd edition, volume II, Edinburgh: James Nichol; London: James Nisbet & Co.; Dublin: W. Robertson, 1860, →OCLC, page 60, lines 7488–7489: Therefore we mendicants, we sely5 freres, / Be wedded to povert' and continence (please add an English translation of this quotation)

But Chaucer wrote in Middle English anyway. 98.170.164.88 01:10, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

RFV-failed, unfindable in EEBO, and OED only has ME. This, that and the other (talk) 10:59, 30 July 2022 (UTC)