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George Washington

A.M.D.G. Brian Cawneen
Junior English 5
Mr.McKenna/Ms. Bogart
November 22,2005
De Taciturnus Scribus
"As coy and quiet as a virgin-wife, newly espoused and sitting mum at the table! You haven't said a word since we left the stable"("The Clerk's Tale"320). These words that Chaucer uses to begin his exemplary tale on the Clerk, establish the Clerk as an impotent, defenseless, yet vigorous philosophy student. The Clerk is a scrawny, timid character, whose characteristics both contrast and compare to Walter and Griselda respectively.
Generalizations of the Clerk as a scrawny, quiet individual are supported in "The Prologue". "His only care was study, and indeed he never spoke a word more than was needÂ…short, to the point, and lofty in his theme" ("The Prologue"11). In "The Prologue" Chaucer also states that the horse The Clerk is riding on is skinny as well: "his horse was thinner than a rake"("The Prologue"11) this quote exemplifies that not only is The......


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