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7 Cards in this Set
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My theme is alwey oon, and evere was—
Radix malorum est Cupiditas. |
“greed is the root of all evil.”
(The Pardoner's Tale, Pardoner) |
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Mulier est hominis confusio
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Chauntecleer in the Nun's Priest's tale mistranslates, tactfully to Pertelote "In the beginning, woman is man's ruin"
he tells her it means, "woman is man's joy" |
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In Principo
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"In the Beginning" (General Prologue, Narrator, and in Nun's Priest's)
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"Boweth youre nekke under the bisful yok of soveraynetee"
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Liegemen of Walter in Clerk's Tale
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ey, benedicite
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Miller's Tale, Wife of Bath, "Bless us all",
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par compaignye
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"for the sake of" Miller
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"This sodeyn cas this man astoned so
That reed he wex; abayst and al quaking He stood. Unnethes seyde he wordes mo, But only thus, "Lord" quod he, "my willinge is as ye whole, ne ayeines your lkyinge I wol no thing, ye be my lord so dere. Right as yow lust governeth this matere" |
King Walter, Clerk's Tale
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