The Canterbury Tales

Prioress

- modest and sweet- well mannered - pretends that she knows french but doesn't - Tiny corals beads -> flashy materials

Monk

- Money -> many horses in the stable - Gray sleeved with gray fur- intricated pin made with gold -> love knot (in relationship)- bald and tanned

Friar (Hubert)

• jolly, merry, very festive but notoriously evil and cunning• married off girls after he had gotten them into trouble• he charged people to hear their confessions, the more you paid the more "repentant you were"• white neck = loose or immoral person• He knew all the taverns, innkeepers and barmaids (not the sick and needy)• He even begged off of poor widows who had next to nothing• dressed with expensive fabrics• overweight

Merchant

Flashy and dressy; confidentFlemish beaver hatgood use of witspresented himself very well

Clerk of Oxford

a poor, serious philosopher; "and gladly would he learn and gladly teach"quiet, devoted to books and education, poor