Chaucer

Question 1

Interruption, after the Monk’s Tale

Answer 1

‘Youre tale anoyeth al this compaignye’
‘Telle us swich thyng as may oure hertes glade.’

Question 2

The Widow

Answer 2

‘In pacience ladde a ful symple lyf. For litel was hir catel and hir rente’
‘No deyntee morsel passed thurgh hir throte.’

Question 3

Chaunticleer

Answer 3

‘His voys was murier than the murie organ.’
‘And lyk the burned gold was his colour.’
‘This gentil cok hadde in his governaunce/ Sevene hennes for to doon al his plesaunce.’
‘sententia: Mulier est hominis confusio’

Question 4

Pertelote

Answer 4

‘I kan nat love a coward, by my feith!’
‘Have ye no mannes herte, and han a berd?’
‘Swevenes engendren of replecciouns,
And ofte of fume and of complecciouns.’

Question 5

The Dream’s Significance

Answer 5

‘And han wel founden by experience, That dreames been significaciouns.’
‘Womman is mannes joye and al his blis.’

Question 6

The Fox

Answer 6

‘The cause of my comynge/ Was oonly for to herkne how that ye synge.’

Question 7

Ending

Answer 7

‘Taketh the fruyt, and lat the chaf be stille’