Frank

As much as I enjoyed solving this puzzle, I do have a complaint to lodge. As an English teacher, it’s a real bugaboo of mine when people confuse the different englishes. The terms used in this puzzle are more appropriate to Shakespearean English, which is decidedly *not* Middle English, and is in fact for more aligned with modern than middle English. The best example we have of Middle English, as noted in the puzzle itself, comes from Chaucer. True Middle English reads very differently, and I’d encourage curious readers to read the prologue to the Canterbury Tales in the original language for an example. I still fondly remember my college professor who had us memorize and recite the first 18 lines (shoutout Robin Bates!): “When that Aprille with his shoures soote…” <a href="https://poetryfoundation.org/poems/43926/the-canterbury-tales-general-prologue" target="_blank">https://poetryfoundation.org/poems/43926/the-canterbury-tales-general-prologue</a>