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  1. Dec 2019
    1. enjoyed reading the story because really speaks to slavery at this period and makes me appreciate what I have, Its really hard to read about how slaves suffer and how unfair it was for them and i also like how he argues that most people came from Africa ancestry. it helps people open their eyes on how slavery is wrong.

    2. locusts

      Locusts are a collection of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase. These insects are usually solitary, but under certain circumstances they become more abundant and change their behaviour and habits, becoming gregarious

    3. eadas,

      Eddoe or eddo is a tropical vegetable often considered identifiable as the species Colocasia antiquorum, closely related to taro, which is primarily used for its thickened stems. It has smaller corms than taro, and in most cultivars there is an acrid taste that requires careful cookin

    4. Abyssinia

      The Ethiopian Empire, also known by the exonym "Abyssinia", or just simply Ethiopia, was a monarchy that spanned a geographical area in the current states of Ethiopia and Eritrea

    5. Guinea

      Guinea is a country in West Africa, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. It's known for the Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, in the southeast. The reserve protects a forested mountain range rich in native plants and animals, including chimpanzees and the viviparous toad. On the coast, the capital city, Conakry, is home to the modern Grand Mosque and the National Museum, with its regional artifacts.

  2. Nov 2019
    1. I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity;

      good way to put it. vanity means excessive pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements. making it hard for a person who is writing their memoirs not to sound vain or obsess with themselves because they are just talking about themselves.

    2. By the horrors of that trade was I first torn away from all the tender connexions that were naturally dear to my heart;

      I couldn't imagine being in this situation. I know it was a very difficult time for an african american at this time

    1. Very long story but fairly easy to read and understand . I always have enjoyed fiction stories because its a gateway for me to everyday life. I also like fantasy stories because I am not creative or the best at using my imagination then other people so I find it interesting when authors write about crazy stories like this one. The pictures were also interesting to look at.Overall I enjoyed reading all the interesting adventure.

  3. Oct 2019
    1. I found it interesting each person voyage and how different people and culture can be. Its relatable to modern day because we are all different and we all view people differently because of the way they were raise or their culture. There were stories that were hard to read due to grammar errors and made it boring for me to read.

    2. to embrace it, to kiss it, to hold it to their breasts and heads, and stroke over all their body with it, to shew their hungry desire of that knowledge which was spoken of.

      knowledge is power and they want to know more.

    3. Popogusso

      The place they call Popogusso." The Indians took special care in cultivating and then curing a plant called uppowoc

      Indian Religion The Englishmen who first explored the Albemarle and Pamlico Sound region in the 1580s, and attempted to establish a permanent colony on Roanoke Island, frequently referred to the native American inhabitants as "savages." Yet, by their own descriptions, Sir Walter Ralegh's emissaries found the Indians to be "most gentle, loving and faithful, devoid of all guile treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age."

      https://www.nps.gov/fora/learn/education/indian-religion.htm

    4. black Moor

      The term "Moors" refers primarily to the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages. The Moors initially were the indigenous Maghrebine Berbers. The name was later also applied to Arabs.

    5. Numidians

      Numidia was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians located in what is now Algeria and a smaller part of Tunisia and small part of Libya in the Maghreb. The polity was originally divided between Massylii in the east and Masaesyli in the west.

    6. Those Arabians which dwell in tents, that is to say, which bring up cattell, are of a more liberall and civil disposition: to wit, they are in their kinde as devout, valiant, patient, courteous, hospitall, and as honest in life

      describing how the Arabians were there

    7. Athens

      Athens is the capital of Greece. It was also at the heart of Ancient Greece, a powerful civilization and empire. The city is still dominated by 5th-century BC landmarks, including the Acropolis, a hilltop citadel topped with ancient buildings like the colonnaded Parthenon temple. The Acropolis Museum, along with the National Archaeological Museum, preserves sculptures, vases, jewelry and more from Ancient Greece.

    8. echercher les occasions, qui empeschent, que les Anglois, qui ont d’esprit, de moyens & valeur assez, pour s’aquerir vn grand honeur parmi tous les Chrestiens, ne se font plus valoir sur l’element qui leur est, & doit estre plus naturel qu’ à autres peuples: qui leur doiuent ceder en la structure, accommodement & police de nauires: comme i’ ay veu en plusieurs endroits parmi eux. 4

      very hard to read . i dint really understood what they were writing.

    9. Popiliniere

      Pepiniere- A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to a desired age. They include retail nurseries which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries which sell only to businesses

    10. Westminster

      Westminster is a government district and former capital of the Kingdom of England in Central London within the City of Westminster, part of the West End

    1. I didn't really enjoy this story. I felt as if it was very dramatic and made a women feel weak and crazy It was very intense that made me feel a telenovela. I am so curious to know what happened to the baby? I also want to know why he keeps referring her as creature.

    2. Midsummer Even

      Midsummer is the period of time centered upon the summer solstice, and more specifically the northern European celebrations that accompany the actual solstice or take place on a day between June 19 and June 25 and the preceding evening. The exact dates vary among different cultures.

    3. And when this creature was thus graciously come again to her mind, she thought she was bound to God and that she would be his servant. Nevertheless, she would not leave her pride nor her pompous array that she had used beforetime, neither for her husband nor for none other man’s counsel. And yet she wist full well that men said her full much villainy, for she wore gold pipes on her head and her hoods with the tippets were dagged. Her cloaks also were dagged and laid with divers colors between the dags that it should be the more staring to men’s sight and herself the more worshiped. And when her husband would speak to her for to leave her pride she answered shrewdly and shortly and said that she was come of worthy kindred – him seemed never for to ‘a wedded her – for her father was sometime mayor of the town N and sithen he was alderman of the high Gild of the Trinity in N. And therefore she would save the worship of her kindred whatsoever any man said. She had full great envy at her neighbors that they should be arrayed as well as she. All her desire was for to be worshiped of the people. She would not beware by one’s chastening nor be content with the good that God had sent her, as her husband was, but ever desired more and more.

      why is this font different from the rest? but its pretty sad that she seeks approval especially my a man. I am so happy I am not like that

    4. .

      i know that when you have a baby your body changes including your emotions and hormones maybe she was experiencing depression and wasn't getting the help she needed.

    5. she bit her own hand so violently that it was seen all her life after. And also she rived her skin on her body again her heart with her nails spiteously,

      Wow to the point that she is harming herself is pretty scary.

    6. And anon for dread she had of damnation on that one side and his sharp reproving on that other side, this creature went out of her mind and was wonderly vexed and labored with spirits half year eight weeks and odd days. And in this time she saw, as her thought, devils open their mouths all inflamed with burning lows of fire as they should ‘a swallowed her in, sometime ramping at her, sometime threatening her, sometime pulling her and hauling her both night and day the foresaid time. And also the devils cried upon her with great threatenings and bade her she should forsake her Christendom, her faith, and deny her God, his Mother, and all the saints in Heaven, her good works and all good virtues, her father, her mother, and all her friends.

      shes getting out of control. maybe she cant live the her sins and this is the reason why she is going crazy. also maybe she blames the child for it and maybe that the reason she calls her creature and not by a name.

    7. Wherefore after that her child was born she, not trusting her life, sent for her ghostly father, as said before, in full will to be shriven of all her lifetime as near as she could. And, when she came to the point for to say that thing which she had so long concealed, her confessor was a little too hasty and gan sharply to undernim her ere that she had fully said her intent, and so she would no more say for nought he might do.

      is she confessing to the priest all her sins. story is hard to read.

    8. burgess

      1. HISTORICAL•BRITISH an inhabitant of a town or borough with full rights of citizenship. 2. HISTORICAL•BRITISH a Member of Parliament for a borough, corporate town, or university.

  4. earlybritishlit.pressbooks.com earlybritishlit.pressbooks.com
    1. I really enjoyed the play. It is differently a relate able play that everyone can understand. Its very interesting to see how people view death and how we take advantages of the time we have on earth. I like the moral of the story. We all should take time in our life to do a good deed. As humans we tend to do things that aren't always good to other because we can very selfish, vain and materialistic. When we are gone wouldn't we want to be remembered by the good we done and not by our selfishness actions?

    2. I stand in fear; I must you pray of counsel, For help now should come right well.

      very human of us to start trying to do better when we mess up or we start asking for forgiveness once its too late. you can def see that the bad deeds are haunting him

    3.  Messias

      In Abrahamic religions, a messiah or messias is a saviour or liberator of a group of people. The concepts of moshiach, messianism, and of a Messianic Age originated in Judaism, and in the Hebrew Bible; a moshiach is a king or High Priest traditionally anointed with holy anointing oil.

    4. abideth

      abideth. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of abide. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, John 2:10: He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

    5. Death. Lord, I will in the world go run over all, And cruelly outsearch both great and small; Every man will I beset that liveth beastly Out of God’s laws, and dreadeth not folly:

      death is something no one can escape and eventually happens to everyone no matter. death is guaranteed

    6. The worse they be from year to year; All that liveth appaireth7 fast, Therefore I will in all the haste Have a reckoning of Everyman’s person

      describes that over time his own creation (humans) are becoming worse

    7. seven deadly sins

      The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices, or cardinal sins, is a grouping and classification of vices within Christian teachings, although it does not appear explicitly in the Bible. Behaviours or habits are classified under this category if they directly give birth to other immoralities.

    8. How that all creatures be to me unkind, Living without dread in worldly prosperity: Of ghostly sight the people be so blind, Drowned in sin, they know me not for their God; In worldly riches is all their mind,

      it is disappointing and sad how people prefer materialistic things and god expresses his disappointment and his intention in creating them wasn't for them to be materialistic.

    9. Summoning of Everyman

      The Somonyng of Everyman, usually referred to simply as Everyman, is a late 15th-century morality play. Like John Bunyan's 1678 Christian novel The Pilgrim's Progress, Everyman uses allegorical characters to examine the question of Christian salvation and what Man must do to attain it.

    1. man should have two wives, or three or four; but now they take unto nine, and of lemans as many as he may sustain.

      as a man and i know difficult we are I wouldn't want to deal with that many wives. i never understood why they allowed multiples wives.

    2. “We believe God, former of heaven and of earth, and of all other things that he made.  And without him is nothing made.  And we believe of the day of doom, and that every man shall have his merit, after he hath deserved.  And, we believe it for sooth, all that God hath said by the mouths of his prophets.”

      very interesting.

    3. law of Mahomet

      L'Alcoran de Mahomet ("The Qur'an of Muhammad") was the third Western translation of the Qur'an, preceded by Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete ("[The] Law of the False Prophet Muhammad") and the translation by Mark of Toledo. The translation was made from Arabic into French by the lord of Ryer in 1647

    4. Saracens

      Saracen was a term widely used among Christian writers in Europe during the Middle Ages to refer to Arab Muslims. The term's meaning evolved during its history.

    5. Babylon

      Babylon was a key kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia from the 18th to 6th centuries BC. The name-giving capital city was built on the Euphrates river and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods.

    6. Enonch-balse

      Enoch is of the Antediluvian period in the Hebrew Bible. Enoch was son of Jared and fathered Methuselah. This Enoch is not to be confused with Cain's son Enoch. The text of the Book of Genesis says Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken by God.

    7. Pharaoh

      haraoh is the common title of the monarchs of ancient Egypt from the First Dynasty until the annexation of Egypt by the Roman Empire in 30 BCE, although the actual term "Pharaoh" was not used contemporaneously for a ruler until Merneptah, c. 1200 BCE. ; a ruler in ancient Egypt.

    8. his bird men see often-time fly in those countries; and he is not mickle more than an eagle.  And he hath a crest of feathers upon his head more great than the peacock hath; and is neck his yellow after colour of an oriel that is a stone well shining, and his beak is coloured blue as ind; and his wings be of purple colour, and his tail is barred overthwart with green and yellow and red.  And he is a full fair bird

      looked very colorful just like a peacock

    9. (that is to say, a monster is a thing deformed against kind both of man or of beast or of anything else, and that is clept a monster).

      did he really describe what a moster was in his original book?

    10. Heliopolis

      Heliopolis was a major city of ancient Egypt. It was the capital of the 13th or Heliopolite Nome of Lower Egypt and a major religious center. It is now located in Ayn Shams, a northeastern suburb of Cairo. Heliopolis was one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt, occupied since the Predynastic Period.

    11. cisterns

      A cistern is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. Cisterns are distinguished from wells by their waterproof linings. Modern cisterns range in capacity from a few litres to thousands of cubic metres, effectively forming covered reservoirs

    12. Lybia

      Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest.

    13. Ethiopia

      Ethiopia, in the Horn of Africa, is a rugged, landlocked country split by the Great Rift Valley. With archaeological finds dating back more than 3 million years, it’s a place of ancient culture. Among its important sites are Lalibela with its rock-cut Christian churches from the 12th–13th centuries. Aksum is the ruins of an ancient city with obelisks, tombs, castles and Our Lady Mary of Zion church.

    14. Syria

      Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon to the southwest, the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.

    15. I have put this book out of Latin into French, and translated it again out of French into English, that every man of my nation may understand it. 

      he clearly shares that he wrote this book to help people out and even made it easy for them by translating the book.

    16. John Mandeville, Knight, albeit I be not worthy, that was born in England, in the town of St. Albans,

      the journey begins for the author who he wrote himself as a knight.

    17. Wherefore every good Christian man, that is of power, and hath whereof, should pain him with all his strength for to conquer our right heritage,

      really trying to enforce their religious.

    18. Jerusalem

      Jerusalem is a city in the Middle East, located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

    1. I think the story is okay. It does have a lot of biblical references and aspect of god. I did enjoy the story having betrayal and greed. That is always something that is very common in most stories when it does to story telling because as humans we look after ourselves and out best interest and this certainly portrayed that. It also shows hoe much people value money and how it is important for certain People. even till this day we can def see greed and the importance of money. we even continue to create movies and readings about things like this.

    2. And into two his poison then poured he; The third one he kept clean for his own drink.

      could see this coming. Greed gets the best in people. so much for looking out for each other.

    3. Nevertheless, if I can shape it so That it be parted only by us two, Shall I not do a turn that is friendly?”

      I learned tow things in life you don't mess with someones family or Money. by cutting one person out I know there will be problems.

    4. florins

      1. a former British coin and monetary unit worth two shillings. 2. a foreign coin of gold or silver, especially a Dutch guilder. 3. the basic monetary unit of Aruba, equal to 100 cents.

    5. Corinth,

      Corinth is an ancient city and former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, which is located in south-central Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Corinth, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It is the capital of Corinthia and is famous for its leather.

    6. magistrates

      The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law. In ancient Rome, a magistratus was one of the highest ranking government officers, and possessed both judicial and executive powers.

    7. gluttony

      Gluttony means over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, drink, or wealth items, particularly as status symbols. In Christianity, it is considered a sin if the excessive desire for food causes it to be withheld from the needy. Some Christian denominations consider gluttony one of the seven deadly sins.

    8. That lust is in all wine and drunkenness.

      interesting how people see lust. I feel like even today it relatable becasue when we vision a fancy dinner date we do picture a bottle of wine being served. Or maybe that is just me.

    9. And win me gold and silver by my teaching 155 I’ll live of my free will in poverty? No, no, that’s never been my policy!

      he doesn't do anything without someone paying for it. it seems like he only cares about is money and without the right price he rather not do it at all

    1. it was very long and with differ scenarios but it was okay story. id did enjoy the various stories told about things that went on but it did get boring after a while and at times hard to folllow

    1. !

      i enjoyed ready the story. i thought it was driven with craziness and suspens which are things i like to read. Also shows how love can make a person go crazy or do crazy things. It is laso can be relatble to modern days because there are so many people that have affairs or are involve in love triangles. kinda reminds me of a novela.

    2.  This Nicholas replied: “Go fetch me drink; 385 And afterward I’ll tell you privately A certain thing concerning you and me;

      he getting ready to tell him everything that is going on.

    3. hawthorn

      Crataegus, commonly called hawthorn, quickthorn, thornapple, May-tree, whitethorn, or hawberry, is a genus of several hundred species of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia and North America.

    4. cuckold.

      A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife. In evolutionary biology, the term is also applied to males who are unwittingly investing parental effort in offspring that are not genetically their own

    5. become eighteen years of age.

      it was uncommon for a young girl marry someone this young. I do think that it is good that she found someone that truly loved her and not for money or anything people married for back then.

    6. algorism

      is the technique of performing basic arithmetic by writing numbers in place value form and applying a set of memorized rules and facts to the digits. One who practices algorism is known as an algorist. but not sure they mean this.

    7. And he kept counsel, too, for he was sly And meek as any virgin passing by. 95 He had a chamber in that hostelry,

      sounds like a lady man. He sounds like he would have women wanting to get to know him.

    1. Archbishop of Canterbury

      The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Justin Welby, who was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on 21 March 2013.

    2. Anselm

      Saint Anselm of Canterbury, also called Anselm of Aosta after his birthplace and Anselm of Bec after his monastery, was an Italian Benedictine monk, abbot, philosopher and theologian of the Catholic Church, who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109.

    3. Alone I am, left without a friend.

      Its. sad to know that she is all alone in the world and since she lost her husband which was the only thing she had as a friend.

    4. Real love comes only from the affec- tion of the heart and is granted out of pure grace and genuine liberality, and this most precious gift of love cannot be paid for at any set price or be cheapened by a matter of money.

      truly believe that love cannot be bought or sold.

    5. blesses the proud with humility; and the man in love becomes accustomed to performing many services gracefully for everyone. O what a wonder- ful thing is love, which makes a man shine with so many virtues and teaches everyone, no matter who he is, so many good traits of character!

      shows how a man can change when they are in love.

    6. wergild

      Weregild, also known as man price, was a value placed on every being and piece of property, for example in the Frankish Salic Code. If property was stolen, or someone was injured or killed, the guilty person would have to pay weregild as restitution to the victim's family or to the owner of the property.

    7. vernacular laws

      “Vernacular” is a term that the dissident sociologist Ivan Illich used to describe the informal, everyday spaces in people's lives where they negotiate their own rules and devise their own norms and practices.

    8. Æthelberht

      Æthelberht was King of Kent from about 589 until his death. The eighth-century monk Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, lists him as the third king to hold imperium over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

  5. Sep 2019
    1. yeomen

      Yeoman is an open source client-side scaffolding tool for web applications. Yeoman runs as a command-line interface written for Node.js and combines several functions into one place, such as generating

    1. hide nothing from me; does he love me, or does he not?”

      it reminds me when we ask our friends for advice about guys and hoping they tell us what we want to hear.

    2. So, because of her great love and nobleness, the lady caused these three distressful knights to be buried well and worshipfully in a rich abbey

      it is a great gesture in her part to honer the three noble man.

    1. whose anger was now much more inflamed, upon the loss of so many hundreds of fellow soldiers, after he had buried his slain,

      earlier he didn't care if he lead his men to war with a most but now he's upset because a lot of them are dead. kinda contradict himself.

    1. archbishop

      In Christianity, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In some cases, such as the Lutheran Church of Sweden and the Church of England, the title is borne by the leader of the denomination

    2. Earpwald

      Eorpwald; also Erpenwald or Earpwald, succeeded his father Rædwald as ruler of the independent Kingdom of the East Angles. Eorpwald was a member of the East Anglian dynasty known as the Wuffingas, named after the semi-historical king Wuffa.

    1. London.

      The text over all is difficult for me to read. I would have to stop and come back to it due to the fact that I didn't find it interesting. I didn't like that it is a time like the entire story. I ha trouble following what was happening in many years and remembering everyone that was in the scenes. after reading it I don't remember everything that happen in every year but I did realize they talked a lot about war, battles, power and death.

    2. ((A.D. 992. This year Oswald the blessed archbishop died, and Abbot Eadulf succeeded to York and to Worcester. And this year the king and all his witan decreed that all the ships which were worth anything should be gathered together at London, in order that they might try if they could anywhere betrap the army from without. But Aelfric the ealdorman, one of those in whom the king had most confidence, directed the army to be warned; and in the night, as they should on the morrow have joined battle, the selfsame Aelfric fled from the forces; and then the army escaped.))

      again they did it for 992.

    3. ((A.D. 981. This year came first the seven ships, and ravaged Southampton.))

      it is weird that they didn't add it to the paragraph above because it was the same year the other events happen but also didnt create a new paragraph like they did before with the year of 875.

    4. They had two heathen kings, Bagsac and Healfden, and many earls; and they were in two divisions; in one of which were Bagsac and Healfden, the heathen kings, and in the other were the earls.

      did they mean they were divided into two type of people the heathen kings and the earls?

    5. A.D. 876.

      recognized that added a new paragraph for this even. unlike the other years each event is added to the year they were writing about. maybe they thought this event was important