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A. J. Wyatt: Intermediate Text Book of English Literature, p. 62

Zone 8Reading Trace:
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Marked Passage:
The 'SUMMONER'S TALE' of the Friar's Legacy, taken
from 'Li Dis de la Vescie a Prestre.'

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A. J. Wyatt: Intermediate Text Book of English Literature, p. 62

Zone 1Reading Trace:
10

Marked Passage:
The 'MONK'S TALE' consists of seventeen 'Tragedies,'
taken from various sources, which include the Bible and
Apocrypha, Boccaccio's 'De Casibus Virorum Illustrium'
and 'De Claris Mulieribus,' Boethius, the 'Romaunt of
the Rose,' and Dante's 'Inferno' (for Ugolino of Pisa).

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A. J. Wyatt: Intermediate Text Book of English Literature, p. 62

Zone 2Reading Trace:
11

Marked Passage:
The 'NUN'S PRIEST'S TALE' of the Cock and the Fox,
taken from a fable of thirty-eight lines by Marie de France,
'Dou Coc et dou Werpil,' or from the later 'Roman de
Renart.'

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A. J. Wyatt: Intermediate Text Book of English Literature, p. 62

Zone 3Reading Trace:
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Marked Passage:
The 'DOCTOR'S TALE' of Appius and Virginia, taken
from the 'Romaunt of the Rose' (the professed obligation
to Livy is itself taken, in the medieval fashion, from the
same source).

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A. J. Wyatt: Intermediate Text Book of English Literature, p. 62

Zone 4Reading Trace:
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Marked Passage:
The 'PARDONER'S TALE' of the three Rioters seeking
Death, probably taken from the 'Cento Novelle Antiche.'
A story of unknown origin with very early analogues.

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A. J. Wyatt: Intermediate Text Book of English Literature, p. 62

Zone 5Reading Trace:
14

Marked Passage:
For the 'WIFE OF BATH'S PROLOGUE' suggestions were
taken from Theophrastus 'De Nuptiis,' the 'Epistola
Valerii ad Rufinum de non ducenda uxore,' St. Jerome
'Contra Jovinianum,' and the 'Romaunt of the Rose.'

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A. J. Wyatt: Intermediate Text Book of English Literature, p. 62

Zone 6Reading Trace:
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Marked Passage:
The 'WIFE'S TALE' of the Knight and the Loathly
Lady, ultimately from the same source (not known) as
Gower's 'Story of Florent.'

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A. J. Wyatt: Intermediate Text Book of English Literature, p. 62

Zone 7Reading Trace:
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Marked Passage:
The 'FRIAR'S TALE' of the Summoner and the Devil :
similar stories, told in one case of a seneschal and in
another of a lawyer, are found in medieval books called
'Promptuarium Exemplorum.'

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A. J. Wyatt: Intermediate Text Book of English Literature, p. 62

Zone 9Reading Trace:
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Marked Passage:
The 'CLERK'S TALE' of the Patience of Griselda, from
Petrarch's 'De obedientia et fide uxoria Mythologia,' a
Latin version of the last tale in the 'Decameron,' the
earliest extant form of which is found in an Early French
story.

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A. J. Wyatt: Intermediate Text Book of English Literature, p. 62

Zone 10Reading Trace:
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Marked Passage:
The 'MERCHANT'S TALE' of January and May: there
are several close analogues in medieval Latin fables; one
in 'Comoedia Lydiae' consists of seventy-two elegiac lines,
and is followed in Boccaccio's 'Decameron'; another, of

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