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Footnotes
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For this and subsequent extracts from The Canterbury Tales I append as a footnote Professor Coghill’s admirable rendering published by Penguin Books.
Water in rubefaction; bullock’s gall,
Arsenic, brimstone, sal ammoniac,
And herbs that I could mention by the sack,
Moonwort, valerian, agrimony and such.
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God’s blessing on you, Doctor, not forgetting
Your various urinals and chamber pots,
Bottles, medicaments and cordial tots
And boxes brimming all with panaceas.
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…supported by the Crown
For the foul lucre of their usury,
Hateful to Christ and all his company.
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A holy-minded man of good renown
There was, and poor, the Parson to the town…
…He did not set his benefice to hire
And leave his sheep encumbered in the mire
Or run to London to earn easy bread
By singing masses for the wealthy dead,
Or find some Brotherhood and get enrolled.
He stayed at home and watched over his fold.
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…a poor old widow
In a small cottage by a little meadow…
Three hefty sows, no more, were all her showing,
Three cows as well; there was a sheep called Molly,
Sooty her hall, her kitchen melancholy,
And there she ate full many a slender meal…
She drank no wine, nor white nor red had got,
Her board was mostly served with white and black;
Milk and brown bread; in which she found no lack;
Broiled bacon or an egg or two were common,
She was, in fact, a sort of dairy woman…
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For Holy Church’s goods should be expended
On Holy Church’s blood, so well descended
And holy blood should have what’s proper to it
Though Holy Church should be devoured to do it!
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2 Voyages de Ibn-Batoutah, Société Asiatique, Paris, 1853.
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3 De Smet, ‘Breve Chronicon clerici anonymi’, Recueil des Chroniquesde Flandres, Vol. III, p.14.
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4 Storie Pistoresi, Muratori 11, V. p.237.
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5 Chronicon Estense, Muratori 15, III, p.160.
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6 Hecker, op. cit., p.21.
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7 Haeser, Archiv für die gesamte Medizin, Jena, Vol. II, p.29.
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8 A. G. Tononi, ‘La Peste dell’ Anno 1348’, Giornale Ligustico, Genoa, Vol X, 1883, p.139.
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9 G. Vernadsky, The Mongols and Russia, Yale, 1959.
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10 Haeser, op. cit., Vol. II, pp.48–9.
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11 C. S. Bartsocas, ‘Two 14th Century Greek Descriptions of the “Black Death”’, Journ. Hist. Med., Vol. XXI, No. 4, 1966, p.395.
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12 Chronicon Estense, op. cit., p. 160.
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13 De Smet, op. cit., Vol. III, pp. 14–15.
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17 J. Michon, Documents inédits sur la Grande Peste de 1348, Paris, 1860, p.11.
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18 J. Nohl, Der Schwarze Tod, Potsdam, 1924, p.11.
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19 Boccaccio, Decameron, Trans. J.M. Rigg, London, 1930, p.5.
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20 e.g. Lechner, Das grosse Sterben, p.15; or plague tractates of Ibn Khātimah or Gentile da Foligno.
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21 La Grande Chirurgie, ed. E. Nicaise, Paris, 1890, p. 171.
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22 Chronicon Galfridi le Baker, ed. E. Maunde Thompson, Oxford, 1889, p. 99.
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23 Simon of Covino, Bibl. de l’École des Chartes, 1840–41 Ser. I, Vol. 2, p. 241.
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24 J. P. Papon, De la Peste ou Époques mémorables de ce Fléau. Vol. I, p. 115.
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25 Ibn Khātimah, Sudhoff, Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin. Vol XIX, 1927, p. 30.
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26 Ibn al Khatīb, Sitzungsberichte der Königl: bayer, Munich, 1863, II, P. 1.
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