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the canterbury tales and king arthur

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Where they are visiting   show
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show twenty nine  
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Where they meet?   show
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show The Knight  
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show Because he is only tell the tale as he heard it so as not to lie  
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show Harry Bailley  
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Host's physical features   show
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show merry-hearted, had an inn, striking, bold in speech, wise, full of tact  
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What does the host propose as entertainment   show
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show 2 there, and 2 back  
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show morality and entertainment  
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what will the winner get   show
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who will judge   show
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show paying what the journey costs  
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first three to tell their tales   show
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father of english poetry second to shakespeare   show
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show iambic pentrameter  
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persona   show
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show a story within a story  
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frame-   show
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picture of the frame story-   show
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show a knights assisstant, studies under a knight  
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pilgram squires description   show
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squires tale   show
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show supervised the lands for the lord, oversees the daily business for the lord.  
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reeves description   show
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show to get back at the miller, tells about a miller who cheats people out of their grain so two students get back at him by tricking his wife and daughter into sleeping with them.  
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Summoner's job   show
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summoners description   show
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show to get back at friar, about a frair who would promise to pray for people for a fee then erase them all from his prayer book. pesters a sick man thomas and tries to seduce his wife, until thomas finally agrees to give him a gift from under his robe  
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show he farted on the friar  
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cook's description   show
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blancmange   show
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cooks tale   show
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skipper/sailor profession   show
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show ride horse, knife in noose from neck, brown skin, excellent fighter, beard, knew seas, the Maudelayne, steals from traders, didnt follow rules  
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show a women get her husband to give her any money so she turns to a monk who will give her money if she sleeps with him. he gets the money from her husband so essentially she gets the money she should have in the first place  
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plowman's tale   show
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plowmans job   show
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plowmans descripiton   show
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nun's job   show
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show madam eglantyne, eloquent in speech an dprayer, well mannered, friendly and pleasant, likes animals, emotional  
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nun's tale   show
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show hunted, rebellious of the rules, wore a fur coat, hunted and wore a gold pin with a love knot, bald, fat, not pale, not religious  
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show a series of short stories about famous men in history  
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franklin's profession   show
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franklin's description   show
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franklins tale   show
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merchants job   show
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show forking beard, dressed in much color, fur hat, danty buckled boots, clever, dislikes marriage, loves money, smooth talker  
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show january and mia are married mia and dameon are secretly in love, january goes blind, mia and dameon cheat in a tree J gets sight back M gets power of persuasion  
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Clerks job   show
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clerks description   show
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show marquis - walter- needs to get married  
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show forgives peoples sins for money, speaks, raises moeny for church by soliciting offerings and granting forgiveness for money  
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pardoners description   show
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pardoners tale   show
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show allison is a seamstress  
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show allison , large gap in teeth, old and large, deaf in right ear, upper class, rich, journeys, open about sexuality  
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show a kinght rapes a women and as punishment must find out what a women most desires he learns from a hag and must marry her b.c she told him  
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show ground grain, worked for lord-ran his mill, sometimes cheated people, common  
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millers description   show
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show carpenter john, wife alison, clerks nicolas(she cheats with during "flood") and abalom(sticks butt out on, brands nicolas)  
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show priest in an abbey  
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show sir john, gentle, kind, elegant, cheerful, sharp eyes, sturdy frame, honorable  
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show old widow owns cock chanticleer whos married to pertelote one day a fox flatters him but he gets the fox to let him go and escapes.  
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microcasm   show
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knights description   show
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knights tale   show
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show humor that involves crude dirty humore and a cuckold  
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show an insulting term for a man whose wife cheats on him  
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fief   show
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LeMorte dArthur written by   show
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