This Wenche Thikke – Best Line in The Canterbury Tales

LOL! “This wenche thikke and well ygrowen was.” This has to be the best line in The Canterbury Tales book by Geoffrey Chaucer, hands down. Possibly the best line in any Middle English book every written, lol. No wonder this is considered to be Chaucer’s magnum opus:

I LIKE BUTTOCKS BROAD AND I WILL NOT LIE. LOL, I am dead.

And I just found this epic comment from Raaxis on Reddit:

“This wenche be thikke and I cannot lye,
Buttokes round and brode of thighe
When a waife walketh in with a waiste so thin
And wel y-growen hips I ken, ye getteth sprunge

Yorkshire face with a London booty”


Oh and here is a photo of the page just in case anyone doesn’t believe this is a legit line:

And I’ll just leave you will this wonderful meme, haha:

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