pilgrims, like the medieval society of which they are a part, are made up of three social groups or “estates.” What are the three estates?
The three estates are nobility, church, and commoners (see lines 35–42).
the character portrayed in these lines from “The General Prologue”:
A lovere and a lusty bacheler,
With lokkes crulle as they were laid in presse.
Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse.
Of his stature he was of evene lengthe,
And wonderly delivere, and of greet strengthe.
And he hadde been som time in chivachye
In Flandres, in Artois, and Picardye,
And born him wel as of so litel space,
In hope to stonden in his lady grace. (lines 80–88)
This noble youth of twenty (the son of the Knight, whose portrait immediately precedes his) has already established a re...
the character portrayed in these lines from “The General Prologue”:
Ful wel she soong the service divine,
Entuned in hir nose ful semely;
And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly,
After the scole of Stratford at the Bowe—
For Frenssh of Paris was to hire unknowe.
At mete wel ytaught was she withalle:
She leet no morsel from hir lippes falle,
Ne wette hir fingres in hir sauce deepe;
Wel coude she carye a morsel, and wel keepe
That no drope ne fille upon hir brest.
In curteisye was set ful muchel hir lest. (lines 122–132)
Also introduced by name, Madame Eglantine, or the Prioresse, is mocked for her pretense at fashionable manners; her Fren...
the Host’s original proposal for the tale-telling contest, how many tales must each pilgrim tell?
DK Book 有相关信息。也可参考原文（选读）The Host says:
This is the point, to speken short and plain,
That eech of you, to shorte with ou...