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Posted: 05 Jan 2015


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The Adventure of English
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The range and variety of the language can clearly be seen by looking at just two of the stories. In the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, the language of high Romance -- used with open sincerity and admiration in the Knight’s Tale -- is used satirically to tell the mock-Romantic comic story of a vain cockerel and his favorite chicken:

The courtly cock had at his command
Seven hens to do his pleasure
They were his sisters and his parmours
And marvellously like him in colouring
Of them the one with the most beautifully coloured throat
Was named the fair damsel Pertelote. `~ Page 71
21 months ago.

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