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| Host of the Tabard Inn who accompanies Chaucer and the remaining 29 pilgrims on their journey |
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| "His prominent eyeballs never seemed to settle. They glimmered like the flames underneath a kettle." |
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| "In driblets fell his locks behind his head down to his shoulders which they overspread... But for a cap his head was bare and he had bulging eyeballs, like a hare. |
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| "When we took Alexandria, he was there. He often sat at table in a chair of honour... And though so much distinguished, he was wise, and in his bearing modest as a maid." A mercenary |
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| "Her greatest oath was only 'By St. Loy!'... A set of beads, the gaudies tricked in green, whence hung a golden brooch of brightest sheen on which there was graven a crowned A, and lower, Amor vincit omnia." |
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| "With a forking beard and motley dress, high upon his horse he sat... none knew he was in debt, he was so stately in administration." |
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| "Somewhat deaf, which was a pity. In making cloth she showed great a bent... Her kerchiefs were of finely woven ground, I dared have sworn they weighed a good ten pound. She had five husbands..." SHe traveled to many places, Jerusalem, Bologne, Rome, Cologne. |
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| "A chap of sixteen stone, a great stout fellow, big in brawn and bone... He would boast he could heave any door off hinge and post. His beard, like any sow or fox was red, and broad as well as though it were a spade; and at its very tip, his nose displayed a wart on which there was a tuft of hair." |
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