. A short history of England's and America's literature, by Eva March Tappan. e supper, the wine, and especiallywith the landlord, Harry Bailey, whom the poet callsa merry man. After supper the host tells them thathe never before saw so cheerful a company together athis inn. Then he talks about their journey. He says heknows well that they are not planning to make a gloomytime of it. For trewely confort ne myrthe is noonTo ride by the weye doumb as a stoon, he declares ; and he proposes that each one of them shalltell two stories going and two more returning, and thatwhen they have come back,
. A short history of England's and America's literature, by Eva March Tappan. e supper, the wine, and especiallywith the landlord, Harry Bailey, whom the poet callsa merry man. After supper the host tells them thathe never before saw so cheerful a company together athis inn. Then he talks about their journey. He says heknows well that they are not planning to make a gloomytime of it. For trewely confort ne myrthe is noonTo ride by the weye doumb as a stoon, he declares ; and he proposes that each one of them shalltell two stories going and two more returning, and thatwhen they have come back, a supper shall be given tothe one who has told thebest story. This pleasesthe pilgrims, and they areeven more pleased whenthe cheery landlord offersto go with them, to be theirguide and to judge themerit of the tales. Then come the storiesthemselves. There are onlytwenty-five of them, andthree of those are incom-plete, for Chaucer nevercarried out his full are of all kinds. There are stories of knights andmonks; of giants, fairies, miracles; of the crafty fox who. THE PRIORESSFrom the Ellesmere MS., which is the bestas well as one of the oldest of the Chau-cer MSS. 46 ENGLANDS LITERATURE [1372-1400
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