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Canterbury Tales (reeve Charac - School Essays

Canterbury Tales (reeve Charac

His heer was by his eres ful round yshorn;
His top was dokked lik a preest biforn;
Ful longe were his legges and ful lene,
Ylik a staf, ther was no calf yseene (590-594).”
This excerpt shows the attention to detail Chaucer selected to introduce the
Reeve. Chaucer also gives the Reeve a name, which is not commonly done
for most pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer announces the Reeve’s
name in The Miller’s Tale, as shown in this excerpt:

“The Reeve looked up and shouted, ‘Shut
your trap!’. . . To this the drunken Miller responded,
‘My dear old brother Oswald, such is life...’
This excerpt from The Miller’s Tale shows Chaucer getting very specific by
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all his master’s accounts and animals, as shown in this excerpt from The
Canterbury Tales:

“His swin, his hors, his stoor, and his pultrye
was hoolly in the Reeves governinge,
and by his covenant yaf the reckeninge,
sin that his lord was twenty-yeer of age (600-603).”
This excerpt shows the Reeve controlling what happens with his master’s
property and taking care of his financial situation because the master himself
was too young to do it.
The Reeve was excellent at managing his master’s estate and he
himself had grown rich from his success as a superintendent, not hesitating to
shower his master with gifts to gain even more favor with him:

“He coude bettre than his lord purchace.
Ful riche he was astored prively
His lord wel coude he pleasen subtilly
To yive and lene him of his owene good
And have a thank, and yite a cote and hood(610-614).”
The Reeve was a successful superintendent for his master and even
bargained better than the ...

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