Day: August 30, 2010
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Chaucer’s Tale: The Nun’s Priest’s
The last three lines of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale contain an interpretative crux. (1) The Nun’s Priest says that even those who do not like his tale can benefit from it, because, as St Paul says, everything that is written is written for our doctrine (Romans xv.4). That formula had achieved proverbial status in Chaucer’s…