Thursday, August 12, 2010

The Canterbury Tales Quote/Identifying Worksheet



You need to copy these sentences and use the text book to find which character is being described. This sheet will be taken up once we complete the entire prologue.

1.None had ever caught him in arrears. ______________

2.He was an easy man in penance-giving
Where he could hope to make a decent living: _______________

3. He'd sewed a holy relic on his cap; His wallet lay before him on his lap,
Brimful of pardons come from Rome all hot. He had the same small voice a goat has got. ____________________

4. He much disliked extorting tithe or fee, Nay rather he preferred beyond a doubt
Giving to the poor parishioners round about From his own goods and Easter offerings. He found sufficiency in little things. _____________

5. He could make songs and poems and recite. Knew how to joust and dance, to draw and write. He loved so hotly that till dawn grew pale He slept as little as a nightingale. ________________

6. His nostrils were as black as they were wide. e had a sword and buckler at his side. ______________

7. He liked to play his bagpipes up and down ad that was how he brought us out of town. _________________

8. She certainly was very entertaining,Pleasant and friendly in her ways, and straining to counterfeit a courtly kind of grace, a stately bearing fitting to her place

9. A medal of St. Christopher he wore _________________

10. But still to do him justice first and last In church he was a noble ecclesiast.
__________________

11. His house was never short of bake-meat pies, of fish and flesh, and these in such supplies it positively snowed with meat and drink __________

12. Above his ears, and he was docked on top just like a priest in front; his legs were lean, like sticks they were, no calf was to be seen. _____________

13. Had hair as yellow as wax,
Hanging down smoothly like a hank of flax. In driblets fell his locks behind his head ____________

14. The cause of every malady you'd got he knew, and whether dry, cold, moist, or hot; ___________

15. I saw his sleeves were garnished at the hand with fine grey fur, the finest in the land, and on his hood, to fasten it at his chin he had a wrought-gold cunningly fashioned pin; into a lover's knot it seemed to pass. _____________

16. Loving God best with all his heart and mind and then his neighbor as himself ___________

17. Then he would shout and jabber as if crazy, and wouldn't speak a word except in Latin when he was drunk, such tags as he was pat in; _________

18. His horse was thinner than a rake,
And he was not too fat, I undertake.
_________________

19. She'd had five husbands, all at the church door apart from other company in youth;___________

20. So had set his wits to work, none knew he was in debt _________

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