Read the canterbury tales, with sidebyside no fear translations into modern. The host interrupts chaucer prologue to the nuns priests tale the nuns. And right away his tale he has begun, 2819 and thus he seyde unto us everichon, and thus he said unto us every one, 2820 this sweete preest, this goodly man sir john. The last tale in this collection is that of the nuns priest. Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, chaucer s the canterbury tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The nuns priests tale modern verse translation geoffrey chaucer author, john moffatt narrator, naxos audiobooks publisher try audible free. Heere bigynneth the nonnes preestes tale of the cok and hen, chauntecleer and pertelote.
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