CT prologue quotes
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| 1. "...hunting was his sport..." | show 🗑
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| 2. "She'd had five husbands, all at the church door,/ Apart from other company in youth..." | show 🗑
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| show | Prioress
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| show | Sergeant at Law
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| show | Knight
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| show | Wife of Bath
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| show | Parson
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| 8. "He lived for pleasure and had always done,/ For he was Epicurus' very son...." | show 🗑
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| show | Friar
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| show | Yeoman
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| show | Oxford Cleric
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| show | Squire
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| 13. "A thumb of gold by God to gauge an oat..." | show 🗑
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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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| show | Prioress
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| 22. Now isn't it a marvel of God's grace/ That an illiterate fellow can outpace/ The wisdom of a heap of learned men..." | show 🗑
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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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| 25. "Amor vincit omnia" | show 🗑
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| show | Doctor
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| show | Parson
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| show | friar
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| 29. "His face on fire, like a cherubim,/ For he had carbuncles..." | show 🗑
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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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| 33. "I'll go along with you myself and rise/ All at my own expense and serve as guide." | show 🗑
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| show | Monk
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| show | Miller :)
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| 36. "Yet he was rather close as to expenses/ And kept the gold he won in pestilences..." | show 🗑
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| 37. "No bailiff, serf or herdsman dared to kick,/ He knew their dodges, knew their every trick;…." | show 🗑
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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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| show | Wife of Bath
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| 40. "Hardy he was, prudent in undertaking;/ His beard in many a tempest had its shaking,/ And he knew all the havens as they were…" | show 🗑
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| show | The Plowman
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| 42. "His was a master hand at stealing grain./ He felt it with his thumb and thus he knew/ Its quality and took three times his due | show 🗑
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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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| show | Yeoman
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| show | Franklin
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| 47. “A lover and cadet, a lad of fire,/ With locks as curly as if they had been pressed.” | show 🗑
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