Chaucer And His Times

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Of what hous be ye, by your fader kin ? I vow to god, thou hast a ful fair skin, It is a gentil pasture ther thou goost ; Thou art nat lyk a penaunt 1 or a goost.
The Monk knows better than to rebuke the somewhat coarse pleasantries that follow; but with quiet dignity he ignores the familiarity and offers to relate either the life of St. Edward or else a series of tragedies : Of whiche I have an hundred in my celle.
The choice of subjects in itself constitutes a delicate but unmistakable snub.
...The Host expected some tale of hunting and merriment from him tragedy has little in common with his stout, jovial person, and frank delight in good living instead of which the pilgrims are regaled with a series of moral discourses which would have been perfectly in place in the cloister, but seem strangely ill-suited to the present company. Indeed, the pilgrims grow restive under so much good advice; 1 penitent.
120 CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES they evidently fear that the worthy Monk means to inflict the whole hundred tragedies on them, and after listening, with growing impatience, to seventeen tales of woe, the tender-hearted Knight can bear no more : " Ho !


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