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The Canterbury Tales
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The Church•The Parson•The Nun•The Monk•The Oxford Cleric •The Summoner•The Pardoner
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“ A holy-minded man of good renown” (line 487)
The Parson
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“Who truly knew Christ’s gospel and would preach it devoutly to parishioners, and teach it. (line 491)
The Parson cont’d
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“Wide was his parish, with houses far asunder, yet he neglected not in rain or thunder.”(line 501)
The Parson cont’d
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“His business was to show fair behavior and draw men thus to Heaven and their Savior.”
“I think there never was a better priest.”(line 533)
The Parson cont’d
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“And well she sang a service, with a fine intoning through her nose was most seemingly, and she spoke daintily in French” (lines 126-128)
“No morsel from her lips did she let fall” (lines 132)
“She was so charitably solicitous, she used to weep if she saw a mouse caught in a trap, if it were dead or bleeding.” (lines 147-149)
“She was by no means undergrown.” (line 160)
“She wore a coral trinket on her arm, a set of beads, the gaudies tricked in green, whence hung a golden brooch of brightest sheen” (lines 162-164)
The Nun
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“Hunting was his sport” (line 170)“The Rule of good St. Benet or St. Maur as old
and strict he tended to ignore” (lines 177-178)
“And took the modern world’s more spacious ways.” (line 180)
“Fish out of water, flapping on the pier, that is to say a monk out of his cloister.” (lines 184-185)
“I saw his sleeves were garnished at the hand with gray fur, the finest in the land, and on his hood, to fasten it at his chin he had a wrought-gold, cunningly fashioned pinned.” (lines 197-200)
The Monk
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“He preferred having twenty books in red and black, of Aristotle’s philosophy, than costly clothes, fiddle, or psaltery.” (lines 304-305)
“Whatever money he from his friends he took he spent on learning or another book.” (lines 309-310)
“His only care was study.” (line 313)“He never spoke a word more than need,
formal at that, respectful in the extreme, short, to the point, and lofty in his theme.” (lines 314-316)
“And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.” (line 318)
Oxford Cleric
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“His face on fire, like a cherubim, for he had carbuncles.” (line 642-643)
The Summoner
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“Children were afraid when he appeared” (line 646)
The Summoner cont’d
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“Garlic he loved, and onions too, and leeks, and drinking strong red wine till all was hazy. Then he would jabber as if crazy.” (lines 652-654)
The Summoner cont’d
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“We should be aware of excommunication. Thus, as he pleased, the man could bring duress, on any young fellow in the diocese.” (lines 680-682)
The Summoner cont’d
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“ He was a gelding mare”
The Pardoner
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“In his trunk he had a pillow case,
Which he asserted was our lady’s veil”
The Pardoner cont’d
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“And with these relics, anytime he found some poor up-country person to astound”
The Pardoner cont’d
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“In one short day, in down, he drew more than the parson would in a month or two”
The Pardoner cont’d
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Conclusion