She would weep if she saw a mouse Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bled. She had some small hounds that she fed With roasted meat, or milk and fine white bread.
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"But al be that he was a philosophre, / Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre."
"Gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche."
"Ther was also a Nonne, a Prioresse, That of hir smylyng was ful symple and coy."
"His mouth as greet was as a greet forneys."
"Thus may ye see that every creature, Evere in his kynde, desireth to confourme Him to the kynde of his creatoure."
English poet, civil servant, and the father of English literature; The Canterbury Tales (~1387-1400) is the founding text of English-language storytelling. Closely associated with Giovanni Boccaccio (his Italian predecessor; the Decameron preceded the Canterbury Tales by ~40 years). For an intellectual contrast, see John Wycliffe, English theologian and Lollard reform-movement leader — Wycliffe and Chaucer were near-contemporaries in the same English Christian world — Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Pardoner are the canonical literary defense of fleshly humanity against the Lollard moral austerity that would later become English Puritanism. Earthy storytelling vs proto-Protestant moralism.
The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue (describing the Prioress's contradictory compassion)
Date: c. 1387-1400
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