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Humblesse

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Hum´blesse
n.1.Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance.
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Indeed, the vast majority of the polysyllabic rhymes in the Squire's Tale are merely simple rhymes which match, or nearly match each other in their non-rhyming syllable count, and are therefore easily mistaken for the more complex variety of rhyme, as in doublenesse and humblesse (V.
Chaucer's anxiety of poetic craft: the Squire's Tale by Jones, Lindsey M. / Style
753-5, 758): She thanked hym, and with ful greet humblesse She seyde, `Sire, sith of youre gentillesse Ye profre me to have so large a reyne, .
Experience and the judgement of poetry: a reconsideration of the ... by Morgan, Gerald / Medium Aevum
In hire is heigh beautee, withoute pride, Yowthe, withoute grenehede of folye; To all hire werkes vertu is hir gyde Humblesse hath slayn in hire al tirannye.
.Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale: Teaching Through the Sources [1] by Rose, Christine M. / College Literature
 
 
 
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