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The Reeve’s and the Cook’s Prologue and Tale choose

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[UK] Chaucer The Cook’s Prologue (1979) line 495: O many a pilgrim hastow Cristus curs, For of thy percely yet they fare the wors.
at Christ!, excl.
[UK] Chaucer Reeve’s Tale (1979) line 230: ‘Allas,’ quod John, ‘Aleyn, for Cristes peyne, Lay doun thy swerd’.
at for Christ’s sake!, excl.
[UK] Chaucer Reeve’s Tale (1979) line 147: He craketh boost, and swoor it was nat so.
at crack, v.1
[UK] Chaucer Reeve’s Tale (1979) line 219: Oure hors is lorn, Alayn, for Goddes banes.
at God, n.1
[UK] Chaucer Reeve’s Tale (1979) line 380: Aleyn wax wery in the daweninge, For he had swoken al the longe night, And seide, ‘Fare weel, Malyne, sweete wight.’.
at malkin, n.
[UK] Chaucer Reeve’s Tale (1979) line 219: Step on thy feet! Com of, man, al atanes!
at man, n.
[UK] Chaucer Reeve’s Tale (1979) line 219: Oure hors is lorn, Alayn, for Goddes banes, Step on thy feet! Com of, man, al atanes!.
at step on it (v.) under step on, v.
[UK] Chaucer Reeve’s Tale ( 1979) line 360: The wyf hir rowting leet, And gan awake, and went hire out to pisse.
at piss, v.
[UK] Chaucer Reeve’s Tale ( 1979) line 374: This John the clerk up leep, And on this goode wyf he leith on soore. [...] He priketh harde and depe as he were mad.
at prick, v.1
[UK] Chaucer Reeve’s Tale (1979) line 118: In cradle it lay and was a propre page.
at proper, adj.
[UK] Chaucer Cook’s Tale (1979) line 511: A prentis whilom dwelled in oure citee [...] Broun as a berye, a propre short felawe.
at proper, adj.
[UK] Chaucer Reeve’s Tale line 4177: For Iohn, seyde he, als ever moot I thryve, If that I may yon wenche wil I swyve.
at swive, v.
[UK] Chaucer Reeve’s Tale line 4161: Ne of his tayl bihinde he took no keep. His wyf bar him a burdon, a ful strong .
at tail, n.
[UK] Chaucer Reeve’s Tale line 4252: Myn heed is toty of my swink to night, That maketh me that I go nat aright.
at totty, adj.
[UK] Chaucer Reeve’s Tale line 4177: For Iohn, seyde he, als ever moot I thryve, If that I may yon wenche wil I swyve.
at wench, n.
[UK] Chaucer Reeve’s Tale line 4153: To bedde he gooth, and with him goth his wyf. As any Iay she light was and Iolyf, So was hir ioly whistle wel y-wet.
at wet one’s whistle (v.) under wet, v.
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