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CT prologue quotes

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show Monk  
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show Wife of Bath  
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3. "...and straining to counterfeit a courtly kind of grace,/ Stately bearing fitting to her place..."   show
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show Sergeant at Law  
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5. "In fifteen mortal battles he had been..."   show
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6. "In company she liked to laugh and chat/ And knew the remedies for love's mischances..."   show
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7. "Christ and the twelve apostles and their lore/ He taught, but followed it himself before.”   show
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show Franklin  
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9. "... For he was qualified to hear confessions.... He had a special license from the Pope..."   show
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10. "His head was like a nut , his face was brown;/ He knew the whole of woodcraft up and down..."   show
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11. "The thought of moral virtue filled his speech,/ And he would gladly learn and gladly teach..."   show
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12. "He loved so hotly till the dawn grew pale./ He slept as little as a nightingale."   show
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show Miller  
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14. "What a pity or so it seemed to me,/ That he should have an ulcer on his knee.   show
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show Summoner  
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16. "Just home from service, he had joined our ranks/ To do his pilgrimage and render thanks."   show
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17. "Whatever money from his friends he took/ He spent on learning or another book."   show
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show Skipper  
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19. "...he paid his tithes in full when they were due..."   show
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show Reeve  
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21. "At meat her manners were well taught withal;/ No morsel from her lips did she let fall, Nor dipped her fingers in the sauce too deep."   show
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show Manciple  
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23. "Their wisdom would have justified a plan/ To make each one an alderman..."   show
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show Harry Bailey  
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show Prioress  
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26. "Gold stimulated the heart, or so we're told,/ He therefore had a special love of gold."   show
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show Parson  
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28. "For though a widow mightn't have a shoe,/ So pleasant was his holy how-d'ye-do/ He got a farthing from her just the same...   show
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show Summoner  
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show Summoner  
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show The Merchant  
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32. "And, as the gospel bade him, so did he,/ Loving God best with all his heart and mind./ And then his neighbor as himself."   show
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show Harry Bailly  
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show Monk  
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show Miller :)  
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show Doctor  
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show The Reeve  
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38. "He’d sewed a holy relic on his cap;/ His wallet lay before him on his lap,/ Brimful of..... come from Rome, all hot...   show
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39. "...had gap teeth, set widely truth to say...."   show
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show Skipper  
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show The Plowman  
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show Miller  
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43. "This estimable so had set/ His wits to work, none knew he was in debt,/ He was so stately in administration,/ In loans and bargains, and negotiations.   show
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show Sgt. at Law  
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45. "A medal of St. Christopher he wore/ Of shining silver on his breast, and bore/ A hunting horn, well slung and burnished clean,/ That dangled from a baldric of bright green ,/ He was a proper forester I guess."   show
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show Franklin  
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show Squire  
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