Irvin Burgess

English

25 March, 04:53

Match the lines from The Canterbury Tales to the characters they describe.

1. prioress

2. clerk

3. pardoner

4. squire

5. knight

Her greatest oath was but By Saint Eloy!

And she was known as Madam Eglantine.

o ride about the world, loved chivalry,

Truth, honour, freedom and all courtesy.

Right threadbare was his overcoat; for he

Had got him yet no churchly benefice

He had but little gold within his coffer;

But all that he might borrow from a friend

Dishevelled, save for cap, his head all bare.

As shiny eyes he had as has a hare.

A voice he had that bleated like a goat.

A lover and a lusty bachelor,

With locks well curled, as if they'd laid in press

Though so illustrious, he was very wise

And bore himself as meekly as a maid.

He never yet had any vileness said,