Question

Match the lines from Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales to the characters the describe.

Answer 1

1. And honoured everywhere for worthiness; At Alexandria, he, when it was won: Knight.

2. Of courtliness, and stately manners took; And would be held worthy of reverence: Prioress.

3. In wisps hung down such locks as he'd on head; But as to hood, for sport of it, he'd none: Pardoner.

4. A lover and a lusty bachelor, With lock well curled, as if they'd laid in press: Squire.