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The Tale is the first in Fragment 2. Fragment 1 contains tales told by the Knight, Miller, Reeve and Cook. The various manuscripts of the Tales differ in the sequence of the Tales. 35 manuscripts contain the Man of Law's epilogue, while 22 others (including the Ellesmere Manuscript) do not.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- 1904
When Alla dies, Custance returns to her father in Rome. (Students reading this tale for the first time may find an interlinear translation helpful.) ____________________________. Contextual Information: The Tale told by the Man of Law also appears in John Gower's Confession Amantis.
The Man of Law’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It is an adaptation of a popular medieval story. The story describes the sufferings of Constance, daughter of a Christian emperor. When she marries a Syrian sultan who has converted to Christianity, his evil
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Introduction to The Man of Law's Tale. The wordes of the Hoost to the compaignye. 1 Oure Hooste saugh wel that the brighte sonne. Our Host saw well that the bright sun. 2 The ark of his artificial day hath ronne. The arc of his twelve-hour day has run. 3 The ferthe part, and half an houre and moore,
The Man of Law protests that Chaucer has already written about all the good stories of the world and has left nothing else to be told, and, furthermore, he is a plain spoken man who will not use rhyme. The Man of Law introduces his tale as one he had heard from a merchant long ago, and, therefore, his tale will be about merchants.
The Man of Law's Tale (MLT) begins with a Saracen sultan falling in love with Custance—a fair Christian maiden and the Emperor of Rome's daughter— by hearing about her from a group of Syrian merchants.
Introduction. The Introduction covers two distinct sections, what Ellesmere introduces as ‘the wordes of the Hoost to the compaignye’, and the Man of Law’s rhyme royal prologue to his tale. Together they raise a multitude of unanswered questions, and few lines are altogether unproblematic.
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