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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer, Geoffrey
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Squire's Tale

Introduction:

The Squire's Tale is a romantic story which evokes something of the
strangeness of the East and the awesomeness of occult phenomena. It is an
unfinished story, but even the part that Chaucer left shows a prolixity, and
a curious interest in descriptions of color, form, and gesture that is well
suited to the young squire, who has been pictured as "syngynge ... or
floytynge, al the day" and "embrouded ... as it were a meede."

Introduction To The Squire's Tale:

The host asks the Squire to tell a tale of love, but he ...

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