Chapter 2

“At night was come into that hostelrieWel nyne and twenty in a companye,Of sondry folk, by adventure i-falleIn felawschipe....Me thinketh it acordant to resoun,To telle yow alle the condiciounOf eche of hem, so as it seemed me,And which they weren, and of what degre.”—Prologue to Canterbury Tales.

“At night was come into that hostelrieWel nyne and twenty in a companye,Of sondry folk, by adventure i-falleIn felawschipe....Me thinketh it acordant to resoun,To telle yow alle the condiciounOf eche of hem, so as it seemed me,And which they weren, and of what degre.”—Prologue to Canterbury Tales.

“At night was come into that hostelrieWel nyne and twenty in a companye,Of sondry folk, by adventure i-falleIn felawschipe....Me thinketh it acordant to resoun,To telle yow alle the condiciounOf eche of hem, so as it seemed me,And which they weren, and of what degre.”—Prologue to Canterbury Tales.

“At night was come into that hostelrieWel nyne and twenty in a companye,Of sondry folk, by adventure i-falleIn felawschipe....Me thinketh it acordant to resoun,To telle yow alle the condiciounOf eche of hem, so as it seemed me,And which they weren, and of what degre.”

“At night was come into that hostelrie

Wel nyne and twenty in a companye,

Of sondry folk, by adventure i-falle

In felawschipe....

Me thinketh it acordant to resoun,

To telle yow alle the condicioun

Of eche of hem, so as it seemed me,

And which they weren, and of what degre.”

—Prologue to Canterbury Tales.

—Prologue to Canterbury Tales.


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