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The first lines from the General Prologue at the opening folio of the Hengwrt manuscript Illustration of the knight from the General Prologue. Three lines of text are also shown. The Tabard Inn, Southwark, around 1850. The General Prologue is the first part of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) [2] is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. [3]
The first page of Knight's Tale in the Ellesmere manuscript "The Knight's Tale" (Middle English: The Knightes Tale) is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The Knight is described by Chaucer in the "General Prologue" as the person of highest social standing amongst the pilgrims, though his manners and clothes are ...
First 18 lines of the General Prologue Original in Middle English Word-for-word translation into Modern English [49] Translation into Modern U.K. English prose [50] Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote: When [that] April with his showers sweet When April with its sweet showers The droȝte of March hath perced to the roote
The Northumberland MS 455 (fols. 180a-235a), dated c. 1450–70 is the only manuscript containing the Canterbury Interlude and The Tale of Beryn. The Canterbury Interlude and the Tale of Beryn were published along with the other tales in John Urry’s 1721 edition of The Canterbury Tales. Because it is the only manuscript containing these tales ...
"The Prioress's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It follows "The Shipman's Tale" in The Canterbury Tales. It is followed by Chaucer's "Tale of Sir Topas". The General Prologue names the prioress as Madame Eglantine, and describes her impeccable table manners and soft-hearted ways.
Within the first couple of lines the reader is told that he is A lovyere and a lusty bacheler, fighting only to "win his lady's grace." This amorous concept is taken further at the end of the Squire's description: " So hoote he lovede, that by nyghtertale/He slepte namoore than dooth a nightangale ."
"The Miller's Tale" (Middle English: The Milleres Tale) is the second of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1380s–1390s), told by the drunken miller Robin to "quite" (a Middle English term meaning requite or pay back, in both good and negative ways) "The Knight's Tale". The Miller's Prologue is the first "quite" that occurs in the tales.