Dan Moorhouse

The Knight’s Tale Part of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer THE KNIGHT A knight there was, and he a worthy man, Who, from the moment that he first began To ride about the world,… 

THE COOK’S TALE Part of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer There lived a ‘prentice, once, in our city, And of the craft of victuallers was he; Happy he was as goldfinch in the glade,… 

THE SUMMONER’S TALE Part of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Masters, there is in Yorkshire, as I guess, A marshy region that’s called Holderness, Wherein there went a limiter about To preach, and to… 

THE MERCHANT’S TALE Part of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Once on a time there dwelt in Lombardy One born in Pavia, a knight worthy, And there he lived in great prosperity; And sixty… 

THE SECOND NUN’S PROLOGUE Part of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer That servant and that nurse unto the vices Which men do call in English Idleness, Portress at Pleasure’s gate, by all advices We… 

THE SECOND NUN’S TALE OF THE LIFE OF SAINT CECILIA Part of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer This maiden bright, Cecilia, her life saith, Was Roman born and of a noble kind, And from… 

INTRODUCTION TO THE LAWYER’S PROLOGUE Part of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Words of the Host to the Company Our good host saw well that the shining sun The are of artificial day… 

THE LAWYER’S TALE Part of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer In Syria, once, there dwelt a company Of traders rich, all sober men and true, That far abroad did send their spicery, And cloth… 

HERE FOLLOW THE WORDS OF THE FRANKLIN TO THE SQUIRE, AND THE WORDS OF THE HOST TO THE FRANKLIN Part of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer In faith, sir squire, you have done well… 

THE PARSON’S PROLOGUE Part of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer What time the manciple his tale had ended, The sun down from the south line had descended So low that he was not, unto…