Canterbury Tales - The Knight
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Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written in approximately
1385, is a collection of twenty-four stories ostensibly told by
various people who are going on a religious pilgrimage to Canterbury
Cathedral from London, England. Prior to the actual tales, however,
Chaucer offers the reader a ....
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.... the knight is "just home from service" (l. 73) and is in
such a hurry to go on his pilgrimage that he has not even paused
before beginning it to change his clothes.
The knight has had a very busy life as his fighting career has
taken him to a great many places. He has seen military service in
Egypt, Lithuania, Prussia, Russia, Spain, North Africa, and Asia Minor
where he "was of [great] value in all eyes (l. 63). Even though he has
had a very successful and bus ....
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