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

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

Introduction:

The Physician's Tale is the (very brief) story of Appius and Virginia,
told by the Roman author Livy, and here taken by Chaucer from the Romance of
the Rose. It resembles an edifying legend more than any other type of story,
particularly in Virginia's confrontation of the unjust judge, and in her firm
resolve to submit to death rather than to the lustful desires of Appius. The
Physician's Tale is connected with the Pardoner's Tale, but there is no other
evidence of Chaucer's intentions concerning its final position in ...

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