Careful Words

folk (n.)

He helde about him alway, out of drede,

A world of folke.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400): Troilus and Creseide. Book iii. Line 1721.

And smale foules maken melodie,

That slepen alle night with open eye,

So priketh hem nature in hir corages;

Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400): Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 9.