(1340?-1400.)
PORTRAITS FROM THE CANTERBURY TALES.
II. AND III. THE MONK AND THE FRIAR.
The following complete portraits of two of the characters in Chaucer's matchless picture of the Canterbury Pilgrims are taken from the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
[II.]
A monk ther was, a fayre for the maistríe,[59]
An outrider, that loved venerie;[60]
A manly man, to ben an abbot able.
Ful many a deintè[61] hors hadde he in stable:
And whan he rode, men might his bridel here