Topic : The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is a notable literary work by Geoffrey Chaucer. A complete discussion of this literary work is given, which will help you enhance your literary skills and prepare for the exam. Read the Main texts, Key info, Summary, Themes, Characters, Literary devices, Quotations, Notes, to various questions of The Nun’s Priest’s Tale.
Main text
A WIDOW poor, somewhat advanced in age, Lived, on a time, within a small cottage Beside a grove and standing down a dale. This widow, now, of whom I tell my tale, Since that same day when she’d been last a wife,(5) Had led, with patience, her straight simple life, For she’d small goods and little income-rent; By husbanding of such as God had sent She kept herself and her young daughters twain. Three large sows had she, and no more, ’tis pain,(10) Three cows and a lone sheep that she called Moll. Right sooty was her bedroom and her [...]