...whether or not it is accompanied by so, which introduces an illustration of a previous statement: Bifil that in that seson on a day, In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay (I-19/20) And so bifel that in the taas they founde, Two yonge knyghtes liggynge by and by, (I-1009/11)...

...with supplication for cure of the soul. When, after this passage closes, Chaucer continues with Bifil that in that seson on a day, In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay Redy to wenden on my pilgtymage. . . . the line of sight comes to rest on one man in one place on one particular day. The...

...salus, both salvation and healing. Their pilgimage begins, as did the vita Christi, at an inn: Bifil that in that seson on a day, In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage To Caunterbury with ful devout corage, At nyght was come into that hostelrye Wei nyne and...

...wende The hooly blisful martir for to seke That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke. (1. 15-18) 6 In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks d pilgrymage To Caunterbury with ful devout corage, At nyght was come into that hostelrye Wei nyne and...

...Tours, had a specific purpose similar to that of later pilgrims to Canterbury: The holy blisful martir for to seke That hem hath holpen whan that they were seke. As we will see in the next chapter, the notion of illness often implied that people had infringed on...

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...And specially, from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The holy blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke. It is very likely that these obligatory pilgrimages set the stage for the later development of a more...

...for to seke, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke. Bifil that in that seson on a day, 20 In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage To Caunterbury with ful devout corage, At nyght was come into that hostelrye Wel nyne and...

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...blisful martyr for to seeke continues continued That hem hath holpen whan that they were seke. Bifel that in that seson on a day, In Southwerk at the Tabard...Redy to wenden on my pilgrimage To Canterbury with ful devout corage, At night was come into that hostelrye Wei nine and twenty in a compaignye Of sondry...