This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... of the Squire's Tale. For the division of the group by some writers into two fragments, see Appendix. t The Clerk of Oxenforde's Prologue, 1.26-33; Tyrwhitt, Cant. Tales, 1.7902-7900. and tender womanhood in the concert of the Canterbury Pilgrims, is very different from the Students in the Tales of the Miller and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... of the Squire's Tale. For the division of the group by some writers into two fragments, see Appendix. t The Clerk of Oxenforde's Prologue, 1.26-33; Tyrwhitt, Cant. Tales, 1.7902-7900. and tender womanhood in the concert of the Canterbury Pilgrims, is very different from the Students in the Tales of the Miller and Reeve. Chaucer has not forgotten, however, to give to him also a certain dose of roguishness, without which he would not have been a typical representative of his class, nor a fit substitute for the poet. Two stanzas attached to the story of Griselda, and an envoy in six six-lined stanzas, complete the picture of the worthy Clerk: But one word, Lordlings, heark'neth ere I go: It were full hard to finden now adays In all a town Griseldas three or two: For if that they were put to such assays, The gold of them hath now so bad allays With brass, that though the coin be fair at eye It woulde rather brast a-two than plie. For which here, for the Wife's love of Bath, Whose life and all her secte God maintene In high mast'ry, and elles were it scath, I will with lusty hearte fresh and green, Say you a song to gladden you, I ween: And let us stint of earnestful mattere Heark'neth my song, that saith in this mannere. And then comes the Envoy with its keen satire, in the form of sarcastic advice to women. The Merchant takes his cue from the last stanza of the Envoy to complain bitterly of his own domestic cross: "Though the fiend were coupled to her she would overmatch him, I dare well swear. Why should I rehearse in special her deep malice? She is a thorough shrew. There is a long and large difference betwixt Griselda's great patience and the unparalleled cruelty of my wife. Ah! good Sir Host, I am wedded only these two months, and yet I trow that he ...
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