Characters Flashcards
“She was so charitably solicitous she used to week if she was a mouse caught in a trap, if it were dead or bleeding”
Prioress
“He sent his prisoners home; they walked the plank”
Skipper
“A medal of St. Christopher he wore… and bore a hunting horn”
Yeoman
“For in his trunk we had a pillowcase which he asserted was Our Lady’s Veil”
Pardoner
“Gold stimulates the heart, or so we’re told. He therefore had a special love of gold.”
Doctor
“In company she liked to laugh and chat and knew the remedies for love’s mischances.”
Wife of Bath
“To ride abroad had followed chivalry, truth, honor generousness and courtesy.”
Knight
“He knew the taverns well in every town and every innkeeper and barmaid too better than lepers, beggars and that crew…”
Friar
“Black, scabby brows he had, and a thin beard.”
Summoner
“A lover and cadet, a lad of fire with locks as curly as if they had been pressed”
Squire
“That he should have an ulcer on his knee. As for blancmange, he made it with the best.”
Cook
“He was an expert at currency exchange… so he had set his wits to work, none knew he was in debt.”
Merchant
“Yet he was rich in holy thought and work.”
Parson
“Bold in speech, yet wise and full of tact, there was no manly attribute he lacked.”
Host
“Now isn’t it a marvel in God’s grace that an illiterate fellow can outpace the wisdom of a heap of learned men?”
Manciple
“He kept his bins and garners very trim; no auditor could gain a point on him.”
Reeve
“He lived in pleasure and had always done, for he was Epicurus’s very son.”
Franklin
“Hunting a hare or riding at a fence was all his fun, he spared for no expense.”
Monk
“By his bed he preferred to have twenty books in red and black, of Artistotle’s philosophy, to having fine clothes…”
Oxford Cleric
“There was no such conveyancer as he; All was fee-simple to his strong digestion.”
Sergeant at Law
“They had the capital and revenue, Besides their wives declared it was their due.”
Guild
“He was a master hand at stealing grain.”
Miller
“He paid his tithes in full when they were due on what he owned, and on his earnings too.”
Plowman
