Read the excerpt from the General Prolgue to The Canterbury Tales. When the sweet showers of April have pierced The drought of March, and pierced it to the root, And every vein is bathed in that moisture Whose quickening force will engender the flower; And when the west wind too with its sweet breath Has given life in every wood and field To tender shoots, and when the stripling sun Has run his half-course in Aries, the Ram Read the same excerpt from the Middle English version of the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne Which statement best describes the relationship between the Middle English text and the modern English text?
Read the excerpt from the General Prolgue to The Canterbury Tales . There was also a nun, a prioress, Whose smile was unaffected and demure; Her greatest oath was just, "By St. Eloi!” And she was known as Madame Eglantine. She sang the divine service prettily, And through the nose, becomingly intoned; And she spoke French well and elegantly As she’d been taught it at Stratford-at-Bow, For French of Paris was to her unknown. Good table manners she had learnt as well: She never let a crumb from her mouth fall; She never soiled her fingers, dipping deep Into the sauce; when lifting to her lips Some morsel, she was careful not to spill So much as one small drop upon her breast. Her greatest pleasure was in etiquette. Based on this description of the nun, what conclusion can be drawn about the narrator?
Read the excerpt from the General Prolgue to The Canterbury Tales . She was so full of charity and pity That if she saw a mouse caught in a trap, And it was dead or bleeding, she would weep. She kept some little dogs, and these she fed On roast meat, or on milk and fine white bread. But how she’d weep if one of them were dead, Or if somebody took a stick to it! She was all sensitivity and tender heart. Her veil was pleated most becomingly; Her nose well-shaped; eyes blue-grey, of great beauty; And her mouth tender, very small, and red. And there’s no doubt she had a fine forehead, Almost a span in breadth, I’d swear it was, For certainly she was not undersized. How is the nun characterized in this excerpt?
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