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... Clerk chooses the ground , by lead- ing in time . The Merchant picks up the challenge on the Clerk's ground : not his proper subject - matter at all . Yet he can hardly wait for the Clerk to finish , and comes in like an echo on his ...
... Clerk chooses the ground , by lead- ing in time . The Merchant picks up the challenge on the Clerk's ground : not his proper subject - matter at all . Yet he can hardly wait for the Clerk to finish , and comes in like an echo on his ...
Page 65
... Clerk . Still , this might not seem enough to justify such a lava - flow as the Merchant's Tale , and Chaucer seems to have felt the need of rationalizing it . The Merchant was the last man we should have expected to divulge his private ...
... Clerk . Still , this might not seem enough to justify such a lava - flow as the Merchant's Tale , and Chaucer seems to have felt the need of rationalizing it . The Merchant was the last man we should have expected to divulge his private ...
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... Clerk's Tale , when he wrote that he — or the Clerk - was offering , not an example of humility for wives to emulate towards their husbands , but a paradigm for all of us , of constancy in adversity : For , sith a womman was so pacient ...
... Clerk's Tale , when he wrote that he — or the Clerk - was offering , not an example of humility for wives to emulate towards their husbands , but a paradigm for all of us , of constancy in adversity : For , sith a womman was so pacient ...
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