The Clerk's Tale: The Best of the Canterbury Tales Of the many stories of the Canterbury Tale, the Clerk's Tale is the most interesting of the tales for the hardships that Griselda goes through that teach the Biblical moral of long-suffering and submitting to the will of the Lord. Walter, the prince and husband of Griselda, sought after a virtuous, obedient wife, and found that in the maiden Griselda, daughter of the poorest man in the village. To test her patience and judge her character before he even marries her, he tells her,"I have to ask her if her will may be to marry and submit herself to me" (pg. 330). Even when he tests her on the conditions of their marriage, such as coming up with the plan of saying he would kill their children,
