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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Reading Notes: Canterbury Tales, Part A

This story is part of the Canterbury Tales unit. Story source: The Chaucer Story Book by Eva March Tappan (1908).



(Dice; Image from Pixabay)

  • Takes place in Flanders
  • They rioted all the time, drank all the time, and gambled 
  • Story is about three of these revelers in specific 
  • It was 9 at night, and the en were already a few drinks in and didn't know it was already still so early. They heard a bell in the street.
  • The jingling supposedly happened before a corpse
  • The men told the waiter to go ask the corpse's name and not to forget it on the way back
  • The waiter said he didn't need to go ask because he heard of the name earlier and it was one of the men's friends
  • The waiter said that he was drunk on a bench and Death finally got him
  • Another man then said that Death had taken a lot of people in a near by town, so that is probably where he had been living, and will continue to live
  • The waiter said you have to be mighty strong to face Death and win
  • The friends then promised to all go and meet Death and defeat him
  • As the friends drunkenly headed to the other town, they passed an old man in tattered clothing who told them "God keep you gentlemen"
  • One of the friends asked why the man was wrapped up all over except for on his face and why he was still alive if he was already so old