alegge

alegge

(əˈlɛdʒ)
vb (tr)
obsolete to alleviate or lighten (a grief or burden)
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Towards the end of this section, speech tags such as "quod she" appear in Dido's long soliloquy, and the narrator intriguingly reports, "In suche wordes gan to pleyne / Dydo of hir grete peyne, / As me mette redely-- / Non other auctour alegge I" (311-14).
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* Till/Tyll: "So God help me, ye maye alegge a pleyne excuse, I reke not who knoweith it, that thees dyrk werrys haue so hyndyrd me that hyr lyuelode and myne bothe shold be to lytyll to leue at oure ease tyll I wer ferther befor the hand than I kowde be thys two yer, and she fownd aftyr hyr honourre and my poore apetytt" (John Paston III, letter addressed to John Paston II 1473, 03, 08).
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We must then ask why the poet-persona stipulates, in a line that cannot pass without comment, that he traces her complaint to no other auctor: "In suche wordes gan to pleyne / Dydo of hit grete peyne, / As me mette redely--/ Non other auctour alegge I" (311-4).
Writing dreams to good: reading as writing and writing as reading in chaucer's dream visions
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