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He had followed chivalry, truth, honor, generousness, and courtesy
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Knight |
A lad of fire with locks as curly as if they had been pressed
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Squire |
His head was like a nut, his face was brown. He knew the whole of woodcraft up and down.
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Yeoman |
She had little dogs she would be feeding with roasted flesh, or milk, or fine white bread.
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Prioress (Nun) |
He let go by the things of yesterday and took the modern world's more spacious way.
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Monk |
His neck was whiter than a lily-flower but strong enough to butt a bruiser down.
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Friar |
A forking beard and motley dress... upon his head a Flemish beaver hat
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Merchant |
He preferred having twenty books in read and black ... than costly clothes, fiddle, or psaltery.
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Oxford Cleric |
Though there was nowhere one so busy as he, he was less busy than he seemed to be
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Sergeant-at-the-Law |
He lived for pleasure and had always done, for he was Epicurus' very son
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Franklin
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Trim and fresh their gear would pass for new
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Guildsmen
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But what a pity . . . that he should have an ulcer on his knee.
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Cook
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If, when he fought, the enemy vessel sank, he sent his prisoners home; they walked the plank
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Skipper
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No one alive could talk as well as he did on points of medicine and of surgery
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Doctor
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She'd have five husbands, all at the church door
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Wife of Bath
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