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medieval period review Flashcards

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ugly pilgrim

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summoner

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fake pilgrim

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nun

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sells relics

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pardoner

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one who is strong

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miler

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one who can be bought— will let you keep a concubine if you pay him

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summoner

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been to Jerusalem 3 times

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wife of bath

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excessively neat

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yeoman

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who is a shepherd

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parson

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tithes

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plowman

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loves food - epicurus

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franklin

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neck whiter than a lily flower

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friar

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not pale like a tormented soul

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monk

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who judges the tale

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host

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who is less busy than he seems to be

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lawyer

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who is “gold” in “if gold rust what then will iron do”

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parson

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who has a gold thumb

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miller

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one who keeps the gold he wins in pestilences

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doctor

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18
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hunts with his greyhounds and expensive horses

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monk

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who is of sovereign value in all eyes

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knight

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sleeps as little as a nightingale

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squire

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speaks french

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nun

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who is stupid but can quote a few latin phrases

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summoner

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who wears a st. christopher medal

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yeoman

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24
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who feeds little dogs roasted meat

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nun

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25
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who has a vulgar mouth

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miller

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who eats garlic and onions

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summoner

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who is gay

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pardoner

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who is an overseer who is feared like the plague by those beneath him

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reeve

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who is a civil servant, sheriff, etc.

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franklin

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who knows every statue off by rote

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lawyer

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31
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who knows the barmaids better than the lepers

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friar

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32
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who was embroidered like a meadow bright

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squire

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33
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who went to render thanks

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knight

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34
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who punished the cook if the sauces weren’t right

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franklin

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the one whose only care “was study”

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oxford cleric

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36
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who had good old “common sense”

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manciple

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one who “loved God best and then his neighbor as himself”

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plowman

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one who was greedy even though he preached against it

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pardoner

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39
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one who was a maker of cloth

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wife of bath

40
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one who as modest- not showy- wore a fustian, stained tunic

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knight

41
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one who was an hones worker, good and true

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plowman

42
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one who “didn’t rate that text at a plucked men that said that hunters were not holy men”

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monk

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one who had a thin, underfed horse

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oxford cleric

44
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who knew how to joust and dance and draw and write

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squire

45
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who was coy

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nun

46
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who should have been cloistered

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monk

47
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who played the bagpipes

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miller

48
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who was most chaucerian

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franklin; host

49
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who sent his prisoners home/ they walked the plank

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skipper

50
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who was a gelding or a mare

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pardoner

51
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what are two names of this time period

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medieval period

middle ages

52
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who is compared to a pearl

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Sir Gawain

53
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what are 5 elements of a romance

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year and a day
quest
magic
disguise
test of knight's honor
Idealized setting (camelot)
54
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3 romances that we read

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wife of bath’s tale
Sir Gawain and the green knight
Le Morte d’Arthur

55
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who was king arthur’s corrupt son

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modred

56
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who was king arthur’s wife

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Gwynevere

57
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who did the pilgrims go to pay tribute at the cathedral at canterbury

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St. Thomas of Becket

58
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from where do the pilgrims leave and when

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Southwark/ tabard inn

spring- april

59
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who wrote the arthur legends from prison

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Thomas Mallory

60
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what was the moral lesson of the pardoner’s tale

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avarice is the root of all evil

61
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how was the wife of bath’s tale a romance

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old womna disguise
test of knight's honor- kept word to old lady
year and a day
quest- answer for riddle
idealized past- king's court
62
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how was Sir Gawain and the green knight a romance

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magic- head could talk while detached
disguise- green knight to a lord
year and a day- period of time to go back to green knight
test of honor- return to the green knight
quest
idealized past- king’s court

63
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how was le morte D’ Arthur a romance

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idealized past- camelot
gawain’s strenght- magic
test of honor- launcelot does not kill gawain
quest- gawain avenge bros/ arthur wants throne back

64
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what does morte mean

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death

65
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who was bedivere

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king arthur’s knight- last to survive
asked to put excalibur in lake
spends rest of life at hermitage with the archbishop of canterbury

66
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what are heroic couplets

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2 rhyming lines of iambic pentameter

67
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who writes in heroic couplets

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geoffrey chaucer

68
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who brought chivalry to the english court

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Eleanor of Aquitaine

69
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what began the medieval period, when?

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norman conquest 1066

70
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what ended the middle ages

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war of roses

Henry VII of house of lancasters defeated Richard III of the yorks and became henry tudor

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who translated the bible in the Medieval period

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john wycliffe

72
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how was the new middle class established

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After the black plague killed all of the serfs

Sheep farms

73
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what language did the aristocrats speak?
commoners?
clergy/

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french
english
latin

74
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which ballad was a bout a shipwreck

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sir patrick spens

75
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what was geoffrey’s title

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father of english literature

76
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how many pilgrims went on the pilgrimage (minus the host and chaucer)

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29

77
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one exxample of a microscopic detail

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miller’s wart

78
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one exmaple of a panoramic detail

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clergy is corrupt

79
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7 deadly sins

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lust
pride
sloth
greed
gluttony
envy 
wrath
80
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which ballad was about a poisioning

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lord randal

81
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what are two symbols in Sir Gawain and the Green Nkight

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holly-peace
axe-war
sash-trespassing, pagan magic, sin about lying

82
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what is a cuckold

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husband whose wife cheats on him

83
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coy means

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flirty

84
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which ballad has a man whose fiance was taken by an old knight

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robin hood and allan a dale

85
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how is commitatus one them e that carries from teh anglo- saxon time over to the medieval time

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loyalty and patriotism themes in ballads. Arthur and the knights of the round table. Gawain took challenge from king

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how is the tone of the anglo-saxon works different from the tone of the medieval works

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much lighter, brighter, more optimistic

87
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what is another word for greece

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avarice

88
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which ballad was about a domestic dispute

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get up and bar the door

89
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chaucer’s tales give a great picture of _____ century england

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14th

1340

90
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what are 4 things that helped to standarize english as the language of england

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Henry VII was first english speaking knig
Chaucer wrote for common man
Unpatriotic to speak enemy’s language during 100 years war
printing press
Wycliffe wrote Bible in english

91
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what are structural characteristics of a ballad

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quatrains
2nd and 4th lines= shorter and rhyme
song like meter
repitition 
dialogue
92
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what are 4 sound devices

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assonance
consonance
alliteration
rhyme
cacophony
euphony
onomatopeia
93
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what is a line that is repeated in the same places in several stanzas

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refrains

94
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whose chin would harbor no beard

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pardoner

95
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snowed with meat and drink

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franklin

96
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woe to the cook

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franklin

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