Chaucer, the narrator, opens the General Prologue with a describing the flourishing plants, and the chirping birds of April. Around this time of year people begin go on a pilgrimage to visit shrines and religious monuments in distant holy lands, but the majority during this time choose to travel to Canterbury. Canterbury is the site of Canterbury Cathedral where the relics of Saint Thomas Becket are stored. Pilgrims journey there to thank the martyr for helping them in their time of need. Chaucer tells us that as he prepared to go on such a pilgrimage. He is renting a room in the Tabard Inn tavern in the city of Southwark. During Chaucer’s stay, he encounters a great company of twenty-nine other travelers also on their way to Canterbury. Chaucer
