Parables were commonplace in Chaucer's time, and audiences would have found them familiar.
I think the answer would be “D”. B and C ‘s quotations don’t sound right and I don’t know about A, but I do think it would be D out of them all:)
To modify something, we use an adjective. Like for example: The tree had an apple. Modified version: The "Big" tree had a "Red" apple.
Lincoln's House Divided Speech. ... A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
