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CHAUCER, G.: Canterbury Tales, Vol. 2 (Modern English Verse Translation) (Unabridged)
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CHAUCER, G.: Canterbury Tales, Vol. 2 (Modern English Verse Translation) (Unabridged)
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Four more delightful tales from one of the most entertaining storytellers of all time. Though writing in the thirteenth century, Chaucer’s wit and observation comes down undiminished through the ages, especially in this accessible modern verse translation. The stories vary considerably from the uproarious Wife of Bath’s Tale, promoting the power of women to the sober account of patient Griselda in the Clerk’s Tale.
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The Wife of Bath's Tale
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Prologue to The Wife of Bath's Tale
00:07:29
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And tell me also, why there was creation
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Now sires, I shall proceed to tell my tale
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We love no man that spies or gives us charge
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Such words I had always, and brought them forth
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And so it happened on a day in Lent
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Now I will tell you truly, by St Thomas
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Who would believe, who could indeed suppose
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Behold the words between the Summoner and the Friar
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Here begins the Tale of the Wife of Bath
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This Knight, of whom in chief I tell this tale
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Now, some men, it may be, will take offense
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Disc
2
The Clerk's Tale
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The Clerk's Tale
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Here begins the Tale of the Clerk from Oxford
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Not far from that same stately palace bright
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The thoughtful Marquis spoke then to this maid
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It happened, as it would again, indeed This ugly sergeant, in the same rude way
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So in this way went by four years or more
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But meanwhile, after all his wickedness
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This great earl from Bologna now is there
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And when he saw her stand so patiently
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Chaucer's Envoy: Grisilda and her patience both are dead
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Disc
3
The Reeve's Tale
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The Prologue to the Reeve's Tale
00:04:25
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Here the Reeve's Tale begins
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Among the Cambridge students there were two
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The Miller smiled at their simplicity
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Like cattle in the rain, wet through and through
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Soon after this the wife left of her snoring
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Yea, hast thou, lecherous rogue
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The Nun's Priest's Tale
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The Prologue to the Nun's Priest's Tale
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Here begins the Nun's Priest's Tale. So Once it fell, as day began to break
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'Madam', quoth he, 'grand merci for your lore'
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But unto one befell a marvellous thing
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Now, when the month in which the world began
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Women's advice is oftentimes ill - fated!
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This simple widow and her daughters two
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Epilogue to the Nun's Priest's Tale
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Total Playing Time:
03:29:49
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