—The Squire, whose gay dress is thus described:—
Embrowded was he, as it were a mede Al ful of fresshe flouers, white and reede—
—The Yeoman attending him, “clad in coote and hood of greene.”
—The “Nonne, a Prioresse,” so “symple and coy,” whose “gretteste ooth was but by seynt Loy”:—
And Frensch sche spak ful faine and fetysly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe For Frensch of Parys was to hire unknowe.
—The Sporting Monk, the prototype of the Hunting Parson of more recent days:—
An outrydere that lovede venerye; A manly man, to ben an abbot able. Ful many a deynte hors hadde he in stable:
Greyhoundes he hadde as swifte as fowel in flight; Of prikyng and of huntyng for the hare Was al his lust, for no cost wolde he spare.
—The easy-going Friar, who “sweetely herde confessioun”:—