The language must be appropriate to the audience and should use the terms that are most current and ordinary. Using fancy language is not ordinary, and any kind of unfamiliarity can be seen as suspicious.
I think it means to have hard boat shells meaning hard sides as in something that is hard and wont brake and will last in strong storms for a period of time.
The speaker wanted the bard to stop singing because
<span>He was tired of sitting and wanted to participate in the games.
You can read these in the lines
"you've had our fill or food well shared and the lyre too"
and
"test ourselves in contests"</span><span />
From Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales excerpt that contradicts the claim made in the third line that the prioress speaks fluent French is "For French of Paris was not hers to know."
In the General prologue, Chaucer satirizes several characters from various classes and professions. Beginning with the highest class to lower. The first character whom Chaucer introduces is the Prioress who is a nun. She is the first among the female to be described, the first question that evokes in the reader's mind is that such higher religious clergy doesn't take a vow of leading a simple life? Hence, Chaucer satirizes the church, as the members of the church belonged from the upper class. The prioress took advantage from the poor for her own good. She was very well '<em>dainty</em>' and was well-dressed. Being known as <em>"Madame Eglantyne"</em>, she was so pretentious that she hardly knew any words of French.
The purpose that the flashback serves in Act II of Our Town is to explain how George and Emily fell in love.
Before said flashback, <em>The Stage Manager</em> appears and says that before continuing with the story, we need to find out how George and Emily’s relationship began in the first place, and presents the situation where George and Emily first knew that they were meant for each other while having ice-cream at the local drugstore.
