Canterbury tales Attached is an example of the knight pilgrim chart already filled out. Fill out the monk and nun chart by answering the same questions in the knight chart on the nun and monk chart. Read what's above carefully for the nun and monk because some of Chaucers descriptions of them are satire. When stating the details provide two quotes from the reading above and the lines you got them from.
Canterbury tales
Attached is an example of the knight pilgrim chart already filled out. Fill out the monk and nun chart by answering the same questions in the knight chart on the nun and monk chart. Read what's above carefully for the nun and monk because some of Chaucers descriptions of them are satire. When stating the details provide two quotes from the reading above and the lines you got them from.
The Nun reading- Chaucer
There also was a Nun, a Prioress,
Her way of smiling very simple and coy.Her greatest oath was only "By St. Loy!"And she was known as Madam Eglantyne.And well she sang a service, with a fine
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Intoning through her nose, as was most seemly,
And she spoke daintily in French, extremely,
After the school of Stratford-atte-Bowe;
French in the Paris style she did not know
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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;
But she could carry a morsel up and keep
The smallest drop from falling on her breast.
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For courtliness she had a special zest,
And she would wipe her upper lip so clean
That not a trace of grease was to be seen
Upon the cup when she had drunk, to cat,
She reached a hand sedately for the meat
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She certainly was very entertaining,
Pleasant and friendly in her ways, and straining
To counterfeit a courtly kind of grace,
A stately bearing fitting to her place,
And to seem dignified in all her dealings.
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As for her sympathies and tender feelings,
She was so charitably solicitous
She used to weep if she but saw a mouse
Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bleeding.And she had little dogs she would be feedingWith roasted flesh, or milk, or fine white bread.
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And bitterly she wept if one were dead
Or someone took a stick and made it smartShe was all sentiment and tender heart.
courtliness: good manners
Her veil was gathered in a seemly way,
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Her nose was elegant, her eyes glass-gray;
Her mouth was very small, but soft and red,
Her forehead, certainly, was fair of spreadl
Almost a span across the brows, T own,
She was indeed by no means undergrown.
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Her cloak, I noticed, had a graceful charm.
She wore a coral trinket on her arm,
set of heads the gaudies tricked in green,
Whence hung a golden brooch of brightest sheen
On which there first was graven a crowned A,
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And lower, Amor vincit omia.
Span: 9 inches
Gaudies: large beads in a rosary
Amor vincit omnia: Latin for "love conquers all"
The Monk reading-Chaucer
A Monk there was, one of the finest sort
Who rode the country; hunting was his sport.
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Austin: bishop said monks should do physical work + prayer.
A manly man, to be an Abbott able;
To which ESTATE does the Monk belong?
Many a dainty horse he had in stable.
His bridle, when he rode, a man might hear
Jingling in a whistling wind as clear,
Aye, and as loud as does the chapel bell
Where my lord Monk was Prior of the cell.The Rule of good St. Benet or St. Maur
As old and strict he tended to ignore;
He let go by the things of yesterday
He did not rate that text at a plucked hen
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And took the modern world's more spacious way. 180
Fish out of water, flapping on the pier,
Remember this . .
Vegetarian diet of breads, cheese, vegetables + occasionally fruit
Which says that hunters are not holy men
And that a monk uncloistered is a mere
That is to say a monk out of his cloister.
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That was a text he held not worth an oyster;And l agreed and said his views were sound;
Was he to study till his head went round
Poring over books in cloisters? Must he toil
As Austin bade and till the very soil?
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Was he to leave the world upon the shelf? Let Austin have his labor to himself.
This Monk was therefore a good man to horse; Greyhounds he had, as swift as birds, to course.
Hunting a hare or riding at a fence
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Was all his fun, he spared for no expense. I saw his sleeves were garnished at the hand
With fine gray fur, the finest in the land,
And on his hood, to fasten it at his chin
He had a wrought-gold, cunningly fashioned pin;
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Into a lover's knot it seemed to pass.
His head was bald and shone like looking-glass;
So did his face, as if it had been greased
He was a fat and personable priest;
His prominent eyeballs never seemed to settle.
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They glittered like the flames beneath a kettle;
Supple his boots, his horse in fine condition.
He was a prelate fit for exhibition,
He was not pale like a tormented soul
He liked a fat swan best, and roasted whole
As we read think is this pilgrim a good example of the 1st estate?
His palfrey was as brown as is a berry.
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