{"id":14682,"date":"2021-11-01T17:52:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=14682"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:12:08","slug":"contes-de-canterbury-le-medecin-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/breton-mythology\/canterbury-tales-the-doctor-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Canterbury Tales: The Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"14682\" class=\"elementor elementor-14682\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9d63dec elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9d63dec\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d5391e2\" data-id=\"d5391e2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f25f5c elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"3f25f5c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/breton-mythology\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Breton mythology<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d80030d\" data-id=\"d80030d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f660d54 elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"f660d54\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Les_Contes_de_Canterbury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Wiki<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9eef1e8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9eef1e8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4a47716\" data-id=\"4a47716\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b88d20 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6b88d20\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Geoffrey Chaucer is an English writer and poet who was born in London in the 1340s and died in 1400 in that same city. His most famous work is <i>Canterbury Tales<\/i>. The <i>Canterbury Tales<\/i> are, with <i>Sire Gauvain and the Green Knight<\/i> (from an anonymous person) and <i>Peter the Plowman<\/i> (by William Langland), the very first great works of English literature. Here is the first tale: the doctor.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9347 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"canterbury tales the doctor\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" title=\"\"><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5f2cecb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5f2cecb\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d7d69bb\" data-id=\"d7d69bb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap 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Tale<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Contes-de-Canterbury-Le-conte-du-medecin\"><\/span>Canterbury Tales: The Doctor&#039;s Tale<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ed48a21 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ed48a21\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-41c363f\" data-id=\"41c363f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c693531 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c693531\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div><i>Here follows the Tale of the Doctor.<\/i><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>He was, according to Titus Live,<br \/>a knight called Virginius,<br \/>man full of honor and merit,<br \/>having many friends and great wealth.<br \/><span class=\"mw-poem-indented\">This knight, by his wife had a daughter;<\/span><br \/>no other children had in all his life.<br \/><span class=\"mw-poem-indented\">She was a beautiful damsel of perfect beauty,<\/span><br \/>surpassing any creature that man can see;<br \/>because Nature, with supreme care<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">10<\/span>made her of such great excellence<br \/>as if to say: &quot;See, it&#039;s me Nature<br \/>who knows how to shape and paint a creature in this way,<br \/>when I like it; who will be able to imitate me?<br \/>It is not Pygmalion<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>, should he constantly forge or strike<br \/>or engrave or paint; because I dare say<br \/>Qu&#039;Appelles, Zanzis<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> would work in vain<br \/>to engrave or paint, to forge or strike<br \/>if they had the brow of wanting to imitate me.<br \/>For He who is the Sovereign Creator<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">20<\/span>made me his vicar<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> general<br \/>to shape and paint earthly creatures<br \/>according to my good pleasure, and all being is in my tutelage<br \/>under the moon which grows and wanes;<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>for the work here I will not ask for anything;<br \/>my master and I are in complete agreement;<br \/>I created it to worship my master.<br \/>I do the same for all my other creatures,<br \/>whatever their color or shape. &quot;<br \/>It seems to me that Nature would speak thus.<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">30<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 This young lady was twelve and two years old,<br \/>in which Nature had such great delight;<br \/>because just like this one knows how to paint a white lily<br \/>and red a rose, just the same colors<br \/>she painted this noble creature<sup id=\"cite_ref-5\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>,<br \/>from before she was born, on her graceful limbs,<br \/>where it is appropriate that such colors be put;<br \/>and Ph\u00e9bus gave his long tresses the color<br \/>rays of its fiery flames.<br \/>And if she excelled in her beauty,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">40<\/span>she was a thousand times more virtuous still.<br \/>He lacked none of the qualities<br \/>that must be rented discreetly.<br \/>In soul as in body she was chaste,<br \/>why bloomed in virginity<br \/>with all humility and abstinence,<br \/>with all reserve and all patience,<br \/>also measured in its gait and its adjustment.<br \/>Discreet in her answers, she was always found;<br \/>although she was wise like Pallas, I dare say it,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">50<\/span>her ease, however, was quite feminine and simple;<br \/>she did not use formal terms<br \/>to appear wise; but it is according to his condition<br \/>that she spoke, and all her words, from the smallest to the largest,<br \/>conformed to virtue and kindness.<br \/>She was modest in the modesty of virgins,<br \/>of constant heart, and always at work<br \/>to tear himself away from vain indolence.<br \/>Bacchus had no empire over his mouth,<br \/>because wine and youth make the desire for love grow:<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">60<\/span>like men who throw oil or grease on the fire.<br \/>Of herself and only listening to her virtue<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>she often feigned illness,<br \/>for what she wanted to run away from the company<br \/>of those who risked speaking follies,<br \/>as we do at feasts, celebrations and dances,<br \/>which are occasions for debauchery;<br \/>such things mature children<br \/>too early and make them too bold, as we can see,<br \/>and it is very dangerous and always has been.<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">70<\/span>&#039;Cause it&#039;s only too soon that girl can take a lesson<br \/>of boldness when she becomes a woman.<br \/>And you, governesses in your old age,<br \/>who have to raise daughters of lords,<br \/>do not be offended by my words.<br \/>Consider that we made you housekeepers<br \/>daughters of lords for only two reasons:<br \/>either because you have kept your honesty,<br \/>or that you were of fragile virtue<br \/>and know the old dance very well,<br \/>but have completely abandoned such conduct<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">81<\/span>forever ; and therefore in the name of Christ<br \/>beware of failing to teach them virtue.<br \/>A game thief who gave up<br \/>to his appetites and all his old tricks<br \/>knows how to keep a forest better than anyone.<br \/>Now, keep them well, because if you want, you can.<br \/>Be careful not to assume any vice,<br \/>fear of being damned for your bad intentions;<br \/>whoever does this is a traitor, that&#039;s for sure.<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">90<\/span>And beware of what I&#039;m about to say:<br \/>of all betrayals the sovereign pestilence<br \/>it is for a human being to betray innocence.<br \/>And you fathers, and you also mothers,<br \/>if you have children, either one or two,<br \/>it&#039;s up to you to always watch them,<br \/>however they remain under your law.<br \/>See to it that, by the example of your life,<br \/>or by your negligence to chastise them<br \/>they don&#039;t get lost; because, I dare say it,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">100<\/span>if so, you will pay dearly for it.<br \/>Under a shepherd, and soft and careless,<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>the wolf cuts many sheep and lambs to pieces.<br \/>Let this one example suffice here,<br \/>because I must come back to my subject.<br \/><span class=\"mw-poem-indented\">This young lady, whose story I&#039;m going to tell,<\/span><br \/>behaved in such a way that there was no need for a governess;<br \/>because in his life damsels could read<br \/>as in one <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/book-libraries\/\">book<\/a> all good words and deeds<br \/>that suit a virtuous girl:<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">110<\/span>she was so careful and so beneficent.<br \/>This is why fame emanates from all sides<br \/>and of her great beauty and goodness;<br \/>and so, by the country, one each praised her<br \/>who loved virtue, except envy alone<br \/>who for the happiness of others goes to grief<br \/>and rejoices in his pain and his misfortune<br \/>(it&#039;s the Doctor<sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> which makes this description).<br \/>This young lady one day went to the city<br \/>in a temple with her dear mother,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">120<\/span>as the young ladies have become accustomed to.<br \/><span class=\"mw-poem-indented\">Now he was a judge in this city,<\/span><br \/>who was governor of the country.<br \/>It happened that this judge cast his eyes<br \/>on this young lady, notifying her very quickly<br \/>when she happened to pass where this judge was.<br \/>Everything immediately changed his heart and his mind<br \/>he was so captivated by the beauty of the young lady;<br \/>and in himself, very secretly, he says to himself:<br \/>&quot;This girl will be mine, in spite of anyone&quot;.<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">130<\/span>Immediately the demon in his heart came running<br \/>and suddenly whispered to him that, by trickery,<br \/>he could win the maiden to his projects.<br \/>Because, of course, neither by force nor by present,<br \/>he thought, he was unable to succeed;<br \/>because she had many friends, and, moreover, she<br \/>was so established in his sovereign virtue<br \/>that he knew very well that he would never be able to train her<br \/>to yawn his body to sin.<br \/>This is why, after careful deliberation,<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">140<\/span>he sent for a bastard<sup id=\"cite_ref-7\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> from the city,<br \/>which he knew to be subtle and bold.<br \/>The judge to this bastard told his story<br \/>in great secrecy, and made him promise<br \/>not to tell it to any creature:<br \/>because, to tell it, he was going on his head.<br \/>When their cursed plan was stopped,<br \/>this judge rejoiced and made him dear<br \/>and gave him gifts of great value.<br \/><span class=\"mw-poem-indented\">When their whole plot was hatched<\/span><br \/>point to point, thanks to which the lust of the judge<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">151<\/span>was to triumph very ingeniously,<br \/>as you will clearly learn later,<br \/>the ribaud goes home; his name was Claudius.<br \/>The felon judge, who was called Apius<br \/>(such was its name, because this is not a fable,<br \/>but indeed a historical and notable fact;<br \/>the subject is true, undoubtedly none),<br \/>this felon judge, gets down to work<br \/>to hasten his pleasure, as much as possible.<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">160<\/span>And it happened soon after that a day<br \/>this felon judge, according to history,<br \/>as he was accustomed to sit in his praetorium,<br \/>and rendered its judgments on various causes.<br \/>The felon ribaud came with great strides<br \/>and said: &quot;Monsignor, if that is your good will<sup id=\"cite_ref-8\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>,<br \/>please do right to this pitiful placet<br \/>in which I bring a complaint against Virginius.<br \/>That if he claims that it is not so,<br \/>I will prove - and this by good witnesses -<br \/>that it is the truth that expresses my request<sup id=\"cite_ref-9\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>. &quot;<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">171<\/span>The judge replied: &quot;On this, he absent,<br \/>I cannot make a final sentence.<br \/>Let him be called and I will gladly listen;<br \/>you will find justice, and not injustice, in this place. &quot;<br \/><span class=\"mw-poem-indented\">Virginius came to know what the judge wanted,<\/span><\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>and immediately the accursed request was read;<br \/>the content was what you&#039;re gonna hear:<br \/>&quot;To you, my lord, dear Sir Apius,<br \/>I, your poor servant Claudius, exhibit<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">180<\/span>how a knight called Virginius,<br \/>against the law and against all fairness,<br \/>retains, against my express will,<br \/>my servant, who by right is my slave<sup id=\"cite_ref-10\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0;<br \/>it was stolen from me at home, during the night,<br \/>when she was very young; that, I will prove it<br \/>by witnesses, monseigneur, if it does not displease you;<br \/>not his daughter, though he may die;<br \/>So it is you, Lord Judge, that I pray<br \/>to yawn me, my slave, if that is your will. &quot;<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">190<\/span>That was the whole content of the request.<br \/>Virginius fixed his eyes on the ribaud;<br \/>but, in all haste, before he himself had spoken<br \/>- and he would have proved, as a knight should,<br \/>and also by the testimony of many individuals,<br \/>that saying his opponent was a lie -<br \/>this accursed judge would not wait for anything,<br \/>nor listen to one more word from Virginius,<br \/>but he rendered his judgment, and thus said:<br \/>&quot;I give this bastard his servant right away;<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">200<\/span>you will not keep it any longer in your home;<br \/>go get her, put her in our custody;<br \/>the ribaud will have his slave; such is my sentence. &quot;<br \/>When this worthy knight Virginius<sup id=\"cite_ref-11\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>,<br \/>by sentence of this judge Apius,<br \/>must, by force, hand over his darling daughter<br \/>to the judge, to live in lust,<br \/>he goes home, sits in the main hall<br \/>and immediately sent for his darling daughter;<br \/>and, his face dead like cold ashes,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">210<\/span>he began to contemplate her modest face,<br \/>and his father&#039;s grief pierced his heart.<br \/>However, no one wanted to give up his plan:<br \/>&quot;My daughter,&quot; he said, &quot;you are called Virginia,<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>there are two ways, either dead or ashamed,<br \/>for you to suffer; alas! why was i born?<br \/>because you have never deserved<br \/>to die by the sword or under the knife.<br \/>O darling girl, with you will end my life,<br \/>you that I raised with so much pleasure<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">220<\/span>that you were never out of my mind.<br \/>O my daughter! you who are my last pain,<br \/>and also the last joy of my life,<br \/>O gem of chastity, in patience<br \/>take your death; because that is my sentence.<br \/>It is love, not hate, that will cause your death;<br \/>my pitiful hand must cut off your head.<br \/>Alas! that Apius has never seen you!<br \/>Here is how, congratulations, he judged you today. &quot;<br \/>And he tells her the whole thing, like earlier<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">230<\/span>you heard it; there is no need to repeat it.<br \/>\u201cOh pity! beloved father, (said the young lady,)<br \/>and with these words she put both arms to him<br \/>around the neck, as she was accustomed to;<br \/>tears flowed from both eyes<br \/>and she said: &quot;My good father, must we die?<br \/>Is there no grace? is there no remedy?<br \/>- &quot;No, of course, my darling daughter,&quot; he said.<br \/>- &quot;Then, give me leisure, my father&quot;, she said,<br \/>\u201cTo cry over my death for a brief moment;<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">240<\/span>for, see, Jephthah granted his daughter the grace<br \/>to cry before he kills it, alas!<br \/>and God knows his only fault was<br \/>to run to his father to see him first<br \/>and to welcome him in great solemnity. &quot;<br \/>And with that word she swooned.<br \/>Then, when her swoon has passed,<br \/>she gets up, and then says to her father:<br \/>\u201cGod be blessed that I die a virgin;<br \/>Yawn my death, rather than be ashamed;<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">250<\/span>make your child as you wish, in the name of Heaven! &quot;<br \/>And, with that word, she often prayed to him<br \/>that he wanted to strike gently with his sword;<br \/>and with that word she fell into pamoison.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>His father, with sorrowful heart and will,<br \/>chopped off her head, took her by the hair<br \/>and the judge came to bring it,<br \/>however he was still sitting in his praetorium.<br \/>And when the judge saw her, what the story says,<br \/>he ordered Virginius to be taken away and hanged very quickly;<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">260<\/span>but now a thousand people rushed<br \/>to save the knight, out of compassion and pity;<br \/>for they knew the unfair iniquity;<br \/>the people immediately suspected,<br \/>according to the ribaud&#039;s request,<br \/>that he agreed with Apius;<br \/>it was well known that the latter was a debauchery.<br \/>This is why towards the said Apius we go,<br \/>and immediately they throw him in a prison,<br \/>in which he killed himself; and Claudius,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">270<\/span>who was a servant of the said Apius,<br \/>was condemned to be hanged from a tree;<br \/>and without Virginius who, at his mercy,<br \/>interceded so well for him that they were exiled,<br \/>he would certainly have been put to death.<br \/>The others were hanged, from first to last,<br \/>who had been complicit in this accursed act<sup id=\"cite_ref-12\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>.<br \/><span class=\"mw-poem-indented\">Here can we see how sin has reward!<\/span><br \/>Be on your guard, because no one knows who God will strike<br \/>to no degree, nor in what way<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">280<\/span>the serpent of consciousness may quiver<br \/>of your perverse life, were it so secret<br \/>let no one know anything about it except God and yourself.<br \/>Whether you are ignorant or educated,<br \/>you don&#039;t know when you should tremble.<br \/>And so, I advise you to listen to a piece of advice:<br \/>forsake sin, before sin forsakes you.<br \/><br \/><\/p><div><i>Here ends the Doctor&#039;s Tale.<\/i><\/div><\/div><div><span class=\"sc\">Words of the Host.<\/span><\/div><div><i>Words from the Host to the Doctor and the Forgiver.<\/i><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>Our host began to swear as if he were mad:<br \/>\u201cHaro! (he said,) by nails and by blood!<br \/>What a bastard felon and what a felon judge!<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">290<\/span>May the most shameful death the heart can imagine<br \/>strike those judges and their henchmen!<br \/>However, alas, she is the poor innocent!<br \/>Alas! her beauty cost her too dearly.<br \/>That&#039;s why I always say, and everyone can see it,<br \/>than gifts of fortune and nature<br \/>are causes of death for many creatures.<br \/>Her beauty was her death, I dare say it. <br \/>Alas! how pitifully it was slain!<br \/>Of these two presents I was talking about earlier,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">300<\/span>man often does more harm than good.<br \/>But, in truth, my very dear master,<br \/>this is a sad story to listen to.<br \/>Finally, let&#039;s move on, it doesn&#039;t matter:<br \/>I pray to God that he has your lovely body in his custody,<br \/>and at the same time your vases and your urinals,<br \/>your Hypocras and the Galians<sup id=\"cite_ref-13\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>,<br \/>and all the boxes full of your electuaries;<br \/>God bless them, as well as Our Lady Saint Mary.<br \/>God save me! you are a handsome fellow,<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">310<\/span>and you look like a prelate, by Saint Ronyan<sup id=\"cite_ref-14\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> !<br \/>Did I not say correctly? I do not know how to speak in fine terms;<br \/>but what I know is that you made my heart squeeze so well<br \/>that I almost had a heartache.<br \/>By the bones of the Corpus! if no one gives me a triad<sup id=\"cite_ref-15\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><br \/>or otherwise a shot of strong and cold beer;<br \/>or if I don&#039;t hear a happy tale right now,<br \/>my heart is broken with pity for this young lady.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"poem\"><p>Hey! you ! handsome friend the forgiver, (he said,)<br \/>tell us some gaiety or fun right now &quot;<br \/><span class=\"OptionText\" title=\"Numbered verses\">320<\/span> - \u201cIt will be so, (he said,) by Saint Ronyan;<br \/>but first of all, said the latter, at the sign of this tavern,<br \/>I want to drink, and have a snack. &quot;<br \/>But at once well-born people cry out:<br \/>\u201cNo, let him not tell us any nonsense;<br \/>tell us some moral story that we can learn<br \/>some wisdom; then we will gladly listen to you. &quot;-<br \/>&quot;Alright, (he said,) but I have to advise myself<br \/>of an honest subject, while drinking. &quot;<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breton Mythology Wiki Geoffrey Chaucer is an English writer and poet born in London in the 1340s and died\u2026 <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":96,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14682","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25250,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14682\/revisions\/25250"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}