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St. Thomas à Becket at Canterbury. The party first assembled at the Tabard, an inn in Southwark, and there agreed to tell one tale each both going and returning, and the person who told the best tale was to be treated by the rest to a supper at the Tabard on the homeward journey. The party consisted of twenty-nine pilgrims, so that the whole budget of tales should have been fifty-eight, but only eighteen of the number were told, not one being on the homeward route. The chief of these tales are:
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The Knight's Tale (_Pal´amon and Ar´cite, 2 syl._);
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The Man of Law's Tale (_Custance, 2 syl._);
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The Wife of Bath's Tale (_A Knight_);
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The Clerk's Tale (_Grisildis_);
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The Squire's Tale (_Cambuscan_, incomplete);
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The Franklin's Tale _(Dor'igen and Arvir'agus)_;
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The Prioress's Tale (_Hugh of Lincoln_);
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The Priest's Tale (_Chanticleer and Partelite_);
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The Second Nun's Tale (_St. Cecil'ia_);
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The Doctor's Tale (_Virginia_);
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The Miller's Tale (_John the Carpenter and Alison_); and
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The Merchant's Tale
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He laughs at all his master's jokes, flatters him to the top of his bent, and speaks of him as a mere chicken compared to himself, though his lordship is seventy and Canton about fifty. Lord Ogleby calls him his