Canterbury Pilgrims

25 cards   |   Total Attempts: 192
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
He had followed chivalry, truth, honor, generousness, and courtesy
Answer 1
Knight
A lad of fire with locks as curly as if they had been pressed
Answer 2
Squire
His head was like a nut, his face was brown. He knew the whole of woodcraft up and down.
Answer 3
Yeoman
She had little dogs she would be feeding with roasted flesh, or milk, or fine white bread.
Answer 4
Prioress (Nun)
He let go by the things of yesterday and took the modern world's more spacious way.
Answer 5
Monk
His neck was whiter than a lily-flower but strong enough to butt a bruiser down.
Answer 6
Friar
A forking beard and motley dress... upon his head a Flemish beaver hat
Answer 7
Merchant
He preferred having twenty books in read and black ... than costly clothes, fiddle, or psaltery.
Answer 8
Oxford Cleric
Though there was nowhere one so busy as he, he was less busy than he seemed to be
Answer 9
Sergeant-at-the-Law
He lived for pleasure and had always done, for he was Epicurus' very son
Franklin
Trim and fresh their gear would pass for new
Guildsmen
But what a pity . . . that he should have an ulcer on his knee.
Cook
If, when he fought, the enemy vessel sank, he sent his prisoners home; they walked the plank
Skipper
No one alive could talk as well as he did on points of medicine and of surgery
Doctor
She'd have five husbands, all at the church door
Wife of Bath