The Nun's Priest Tale - Quotes Flashcards
Prologue
‘youre tale anoyeth al this compaignye’
‘murie tale’
Exposition
‘povre widwe’
‘litle was hir catel and hir rente’
‘sklendre meel’
Characterisation of Chauntecleer
‘voys was murier that the murie orgon’
‘coomb’ was redder than ‘fyn coral’
‘sevene hennes to ‘duon al his plesaunace’
‘faire Pertelote’
‘perch’
Courtly Prince in his ‘halle’
Pertelote’s response to Chauntecleer’s dream
‘ye lost myn herte and al my love’
‘I kan nat love a coward’
Cites ‘Catoun’
‘taak som laxatif’
Chauntecleer’s Rebuttle
‘dremes been significaciouns’
Example of man murdered in stable and body put into a ‘dong-carte’
‘in the same book I rede’ - satirising scholastic teaching
Chauntecleer’s exemplum
‘Seint Kenelm’
Final example is death of Hector as the hand of Achilles during Trojan War (Andromache’s dream)
Courting Pertlelote
‘woman is mannes joye and al his blis’
‘I am so ful of joye and of solas, that I diffye bothe sweven and dreem’
‘he fethered Pertelote twenty time’
Nun’s Priest’s Warning Predestination
‘for evere the latter end of joy is wo’
‘wommannes conseils broghte us first to wo, and made Adam fro Paradis to go’ - comical that likening a woman’s dismissal of a dream to Adam and Eve’s fall from grace
Russel description
‘a col-fox, ful of sly iniquitee’ - comic villain
Fox’s Flattery
‘be ye affrayed of me’
‘as any aungel hath that is in hevene’
‘ravisshed with his flaterie’
Comically exaggerated capture of chicken
‘for on a Friday, soothly, slain was he’
‘Sovereynly Dame Pertelote’ shouted louder than ‘Hasdrubales wyf’
Full of ‘torment and of rage’
Farcical reactions and chase scene
‘berking of the dogges’
‘shouting of the men and wommen’
Reversal of fortune, comic resolution
‘how fortune turneth sodeynly’
Chauntecleer uses foxes own rhetoric against him
Moral
‘taketh the fruit and lat the chaf be stille’
Madame Eglentine
‘she leet no morsel from hir lippes falle’
‘heng a brooch of gold ful sheene’
‘not undergrowe’
