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The Friar's tale has no clear original source like many of Chaucer's tales but it is of a type which is common and always seems popular: "the corrupt official gets their comeuppance". The tale itself continues in the denigration of summoners with its vivid description of the work of a summoner.
The tale is a fierce counterpunch to the preceding tale by the Friar, who had delivered an attack on summoners. Summoners were officials in ecclesiastical courts who delivered a summons to people who had been brought up on various charges; [ 1 ] the office was prone to corruption, since summoners were infamous for threatening to bring people up ...
The Prioresses tale, Sir Thopas, the Monkes tale, the Clerkes tale, the Squieres tale, from the Canterbury tales (1888). [339] Edited and translated by the Rev. Walter William Skeat (1835–1912). [319] The tale of the man of lawe; The second nonnes tale; The chanouns yemannes tale (1891). [340] Done into modern English by Walter W. Skeat.
The Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript is an early-15th-century manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, held in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth.It is an important source for Chaucer's text, and was possibly written by someone with access to an original authorial holograph, now lost.
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The fictional friar, William of Baskerville, alludes both to the fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes and to William of Ockham.The name itself is derived from William of Ockham and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book The Hound of the Baskervilles.
The Friar in the Well: A friar solicits a maiden. She asks for money, and when the friar comes to pay her, she tricks him into falling into a well. The friar asks for help, but she reminds him that St. Francis did not teach friars to seduce maidens. Finally, she pulls him out but refuses to return the money, saying he must pay for fouling the ...
The Canon's Yeoman's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canon's Yeoman's Tale The Canon and his Yeoman are not mentioned in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales , where most of the other pilgrims are described, but they arrive later after riding fast to catch up with the group. [ 1 ]