Here begynneth the tale of Alma redemptoris, the prioresses Tale.
The Invocation to the Virgin bears some resemblance to the Prioresses Prologue; see note to l.
I have not been able to discover from what Legende of the Miracles of Our Lady the Prioresses Tale is taken.
A modernised version of the Prioresses Tale will be found among Wordsworth's Poems.
It is well told, and has some remarkable points of agreement with thePrioresses Tale.
Since I wrote the preceding remarks, which were formerly printed in my edition of The Prioresses Tale, &c.
Tyrwhitt's account of the Prioresses Tale is as follows: 'The transition from the Tale of the Shipman to that of the Prioresse is happily managed.
It is, however, very plain that the journeys taken by abbesses and prioresses were not always strictly concerned with the business of their convents, or at least they combined business most adroitly with pleasure.
The bishops did their best in the face of great difficulties, but it is plain that the prioresses sometimes thought little enough of their authority.
Much information about the conduct of abbesses and prioresses may be obtained from a study of episcopal registers, and in particular of visitation documents.
It is perhaps not surprising that abbesses and prioressesshould have found it hard to change the way of life, which they had led before they took the veil and which they saw all around them, when they rode about in the world.
Nor was the sad business of deathbeds the only share taken by these prioresses in public life.
Not all prioresses were, like Chaucer's, "ful plesaunt and amiable of port.
See this idiom explained in my note to the Prioresses Tale, Group F, l.
This stanza closely resembles the fourth stanza of the Prioresses Prologue, B.
The story here closely resembles the end of the Prioresses Tale, B.
It was not common for Prioresses to have female chaplains; but Littre gives chapelaine, fem.
Legend of St. Cecilia and the Legend of the boy-saint in the Prioresses Tale.
It may be just permissible to add that a comparison of Chaucer's and Marivaux's prioresses will suggest itself to many persons, and should be found delectable by all fit ones.
Sidenote: Examples:--Marianne on the physique and moral ofPrioresses and Nuns.
All prioresses were not 'ful plesaunt and amiable of port', or stately in their manner.
Other wicked prioresses used sometimes even to pawn the plate and jewels of the convent, to get money for their own private purposes.
At the daily chapter held in the women's house the prioresses presided in turn, with a companion on either side.
The men's dwelling was under the rule of a prior, but three prioresses ruled conjointly in the women's house.
The nuns here at first refused to admit him, and when he forced an entrance the two prioresses would not admit the accusations made against two of their nuns, 'nor the parties concerned, nor the nuns, only one old beldame.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prioresses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
