Chaucer's Pilgrims

“very distinguished man. From the begining of his career he had loved chivarly, loyalty, honorable dealing, generosity, and good breeding… travelled further than most men in heathen, as well as Christian lands… yet though distinguished he was prudent and his bearing as modest as maid’s… his horse’s were good, yet he was not gaily dressed.”

Knight — first estate

“his young son a spirited apprentice knight, a love with hair as curly as if it had just been pressed in the tongs — age about twenty — he hoped to win favor in his lady’s eyes — decked out like a meadow — whistled / sang all day long 00 being — passionately in love at night he slept no more than a nightingale.”

squire — the first estate

“and no other servents… he knew how to look after his gear in a soldiery fashion; his arrows did not fall short because of poor feathering) while in his hand he carried a mighty bow… on his brest a shining silver image of Saint Christopher.. I’d say he was a forester.”

yeoman — thirs estate

“who smiled in an unaffected and quiet way — great oath ‘by saint loy’s’— sang divine service prettily becomingly intoned through her nose — spoke French elegently with a Stratfor-at-Bow accent — showed her good breeding at every point — ettiquite was her passion — pleasent and friendly — she was so thunder hearted and compassionate she would weep wherever she saw a mouse caught in a trap — she wore the most elegant coat”

prioress/nun — second estate

“estate steward to his monastery + loved hunting — manly man fitted to be an abbot — bells on his brindle jingling as clear and as loved as the chapel bell of the small covenant he was head — neglected the old precepts and followed modern custom —did not give two pints for the texts that says hunters can not be holy men — sleeves edged with costly great fur — elaborate golden brooch”

monk — second estate

“a gay pleasnt limiter with an imposing presence; nobody in all the four orders was so adept with flattery and tittle tattle — he heard confession sweetly — his absolution was pleasent — for if a man gives generously to a poor order it is a sign he has been well shriven — only to beg in saying the first words of the gospel of st. jogn in his pleasent voice at least get supense out of her.”

friar — second estate

“with a forcked beard who rode seated on a high saddled wearing a many colored dress boots fastened with neat handsome clasps, and upon his head a Flanders beaver hat… gave out opinion his great pomposity and never stopped talking about the increase in profits — non guessed he was in debt”

Merchent — third estate

from oxford who had long been studying Logic — His horse was as lean as a rake — he himself were no fatter — melancholoy and hollow-cheeked — found himself a benefince and was too unworldy to take secular emplyment — for all his philosophy and science had bot little gold in his coffee — learning his whole solitude and care”

scholar — third estat

“a well known figure at the portico of Saint Paul’s where lawyers meet — man of excellent parts, discreet, and of great distinction (or so he seemed), he spoke with such wisdom, Judge of assize by the King’s Leather pettent…nowhere was a better coveryancer… no busier a man.. dressed simply”

sergent of law — third estate

“with a ruddy complexsion and daisy white beard, who was more than partial to a drink of sops-in-wine… held the opinion that the only real happiness lied in sensual pleasures…”

franklin — third estate

“for the occasion to boil chicked with marrowbones, tasrt flavouring powder and spice… he’d got an ulcer on his shin”

cook — third estate

“whose home was in the west country was as also there; as far as I can tell, he came from dartmouth— rode upon a farm horse—gown of coarse serge reaching to the knee—for he had lifted any amount of wine from Borduex while the merchants were napping… no time for finer things — not to match his seamanship in calculating tides knowledge of harbours, navigation, and the changed of the moon.”

sea captian — third estate

“accomapined us— for he was well a rounded in astronomy—he could diagonse every kind of disease and say in what organ and from which of the four humors— he seldom read the bible.”

doctor of medicine — third estate

“she was a bit deaf… her kerchiefs were of the finest texture — she had been a respectable women all her life, having married five husbands in chirch—so she knew a lot about traveling — the truth is she was gap-toothed—no doubt she knew all cures for love for that game she was past mistress.”

wife of bath — third estate

“but rich in holy thoughts and in acts — also a learned man a scholar who truly preached christ gospel and taugt his parishioners devoutly. Benign hardworking and patient in adversity — he practiced then he preached.”

poor parson — third estate

“this good and faithful labourer… he loved his neighbor as himself.”

ploughman — third estate

“a great brawny fellow, big boned… upon the top of his nose a wart… had a great mouth, wide as a furnance door — a ribald joker and a chatterer.”

miller — third estate

“…was a slender, choleric man. he shaved his beard as close he could, and cropped his hair short round the ears… they feared him like death itself.. he was better than his master and had feathered his nest very comfortably.”

reeve — third estate

“with slit eyes and flaming red visage like cherubs all covered with pimples.”

summoner — third estate

“of roucuncival at Charing Cross, his friend and bossom campanion, who need come straight from the vatican at rome… yet when he came across som epoor country parson he could make more monet with the relics in a day than the parson got in two months.”

pardoner — third estate

Who is the Host? Why does he exist?

The Host is Harry Bailey. The Host is used as a way to start the stories (the game) and to make sure stories are told.