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The caterbury tales

ple say is round; the whole wide world if it belonged to me. This tells us how deeply the squire is in obsessed. When the rocks are removed and Arveragus return safely he finds out about Dorigens promise, Arelious then says, So madam I release into your hand all bonds or deeds of covenant that stand between usFor any promise given, and so I leave you madam, the very beast and truest wife. The squire sees that the knight a man of nobility and chastity accepts the arrangement but being a man who wishes to follow chastity himself accept that he shouldnt have bargained for his wife and repents for his lack of chastity. Thus doing so the Squire is left alone and poor the magician then tells him, My brother each of you did as nobly as the other. You are a squire, sir, and he a knight but god forbid in all his blissful might that men of learning should not come as hear to nobleness as any, never fear. In the end all the characters are happy and all learn a lesson. The lesson behind it is that all men who are noble come out winners in the end and the ones sacrifice never goes unpaid.The Municipals Tale, That talks about how women were prisoners to their own husbands. Phoebus described by Chaucer as, This Phoebus, Flower in the cap of youth renowned for bounty, Chivalry and truth, to please himself and signalize his glory in having vanquished python, says my story, was wont to carry in his hand a bow. Chaucer tires to give us a picture of the ideal man who possessed everything any man would envy. Phoebus owns a white crow that possessed the strange gift of speech and beautiful music, which even nightingales would envy. The white plumage and beautiful music can mean the crow is an object of pureness and good. He also has a wife who Phoebus cares for, Chaucer writes about her, A good wife who is pure in thought and deed should not be checked and paid on, that is plain and truly it is labor all in vain. Chaucer suggest that possibly the wife is hav...

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