General Prologue
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The "General Prologue" is the first part of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It introduces the frame story, in which a group of pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbur
The first lines from the General Prologue at the opening folio of the Hengwrt manuscript
The Tabard Inn, Southwark, around 1850
The Knight
The Squire
The Cook's Tale
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"The Cook's Tale" is one of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It breaks off after 58 lines and was presumably never finished, although some scholars argue that Chaucer deliberately left the ta
"The Cook" from The Canterbury Tales
