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Fat was this lord, he stood in goodly case. His bulging eyes he rolled about, and hot They gleamed and red, like fire beneath a pot; His boots were soft; his horse of great estate. Now certainly he was a fine prelate: He was not pale as some poor wasted ghost. A fat swan loved he best of any roast. His palfrey was as brown as is a berry. THE FRIAR
The Friar's Tale tells of an archdeacon who boldly carried out the Church's laws against fornication, witchcraft and lechery. Lechers received the greatest punishment, forced to pay significant tithes to the church. The archdeacon had a summoner who was quite adept at discovering lechers, even though he himself was immoral.
Aug 10, 2023 · The Host’s aim is to avoid ‘debaat’, quarrelling, among the company, but the Summoner promises to ‘quiten every grot’ of what the Friar can say in his own story, which thus promises to be, like the Reeve’s, a reprisal for the preceding tale. This Prologue thus serves to introduce not just the Friar’s Tale but the Summoner’s as well.
THE ‘tales of Canterbury’, as Chaucer refers to his last and most ambitious poem, describe a fictional journey from the Tabard Inn in Southwark, just outside London, to Canterbury, sixty miles away.
Summary. In this tale, the Friar paints an unsavory image of summoners which is refuted, in the next tale, by the Summoner himself. A church official (an archdeacon) has spies that work around his town and report back to him about who has sinned, so he can extort money from them in exchange for forgiveness for their sins.
Short Summary: An avaricious archdeacon has in his employ a sly summoner, a thief and pimp. This summoner, out to serve a false summons on a poor widow, meets a gay yeoman, clad all in green.
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The Friar’s Prologue. The Prologue to the Friar’sTale. The worthy Limiter, our noble Friar, Kept glancing round with a scowl of ire Towards the Summoner, but from honesty No villainous word as yet spoke he. But at last he turned to the Wife: ‘Dame,’ quoth he, ‘God grant you a good life!
