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Asked the about the expression "Suffer fools gladly" (Corinthians 11:19), the first 10 people surveyed ventured a source with disarming speed: "Wordsworth," "Hamlet ," "Hamlet ," "Hamlet ," "Wordsworth," "Beowulf ," "Chaucer," "Macbeth ," "Herrick," and "Gerard Manly Hopkins."
' That might work for you, but I would forget the sentence (especially Absalom, my main association with the name being with Chaucer's ribald Miller's Tale ).
I miss such documentation in Wilkinson's book: the only indication we have, from How to use the book, is in a vague mention of Heywood, Ray, OED, ODEP , Apperson, and Skeat's 1895 edition of Chaucer--vague because the average user of this book may not be familiar with these cryptic references, and no bibliographic details are provided.
In Northamptonshire, Jeremy Seabrook reported in The Unprivileged that his mother would use terms that appear in Chaucer but have long vanished from Received English.
Of more recent vintage is gay . Nobody used to snicker at Chaucer's line (No.