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Plays of Shakespeare is similar much of the rhymes and inside jokes are lost now due to modern pronunciation of old words. http://originalpronunciation.com/GBR

• gfaure 5y ago
  Similarly, in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, a young squire is described as conducting himself "in hope to stonden in his lady grace" (in the hopes of standing in his lady's grace). Some take this to be a bawdy anatomical pun, expressing the young man's hopes of 'standing' in his lady's 'grass' — a distinction lost nowadays that the pronunciation of "grace" and "grass" have grown so far apart. (Line 88 of Chaucer's General Prologue, https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/general-prologue-0 https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/general-prologue-0)