Tere, muscle.

My later dayes in paine, and spende myne age In teres and plaint!

And when these eyes some aged teres have shed The tomb my self then will I crepe into

Though its dialogues and descriptions are somewhat too long and interrupt the story, yet it shows Chaucer at his best in his dramatic power, his exquisite appreciation of nature, and his tender yet profound philosophy of living, which could overlook much of human frailty in the thought that Infinite been the sorwes and the teres Of oldë folk, and folk of tendre yeres.

As he looks over the struggling world, he says with a sympathetic heart: "Infinite been the sorwes and the teres Of olde folk, and folk of tendre yeres.

perfect, faultless; indefective^, indeficient^, indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection &c 651; unblemished, uninjured &c 659; sound, sound as a roach; in perfect condition; scathless^, intact, harmless; seaworthy &c (safe) 644; right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus

[450] "sapiens sibique imperiosus, Quem neque pauperis, neque mors, neque vincula terrent, Responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores Fortis, et in seipso totus teres atque rotundus.

Oh wrong him not. Tere.

No, of my faith, my Lady. Tere.

You no trudge soyou nebber get tere.

He is not teres et rotundus.

And I of whom the sight plounged in teres was darked, so that I ne might not know what that woman was, of so Imperial aucthoritie, I woxe all abashed and stonied, and cast my sight doune to the yerth, and began still for to abide what she would doen afterward.

Steele. 'Responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores, Fortis, et in seipso totus teres, atque rotundus.' Hor.

Tere ish notting to do mit!" I called out: "Men, what have you had to eat?" "Hard tack, and something they call coffee," was the response.