The narrator of this poem uses three examples in expressing the faithlessness of women: a she-wolf, a cat that eats a mouse, and a bird that leaves its cage. The poem's moral, that "much chatter is the food of sinful thought," is defied by the narrator in the poem's prologue, in which he decries the Cook's drunkenness. The infidelity of Coronis is reported by a talking white crow, and in response to this, Phoebus kills Coronis and condemns all crows to blackness. For 10 points-- name this Canterbury Tale whose narrator is described in the General Prologue as being "wis
The narrator of this poem uses three examples in expressing the faithlessness of women: a she-wolf, a cat that eats a mouse, and a bird that leaves its cage. The poem's moral, that "much chatter is the food of sinful thought," is defied by the narrator in the poem's prologue, in which he decries the Cook's drunkenness. The infidelity of Coronis is reported by a talking white crow, and in response to this, Phoebus kills Coronis and condemns all crows to blackness. For 10 points-- name this Canterbury Tale whose narrator is described in the General Prologue as being "wise in the buying of provisions."
The narrator of this poem uses three examples in expressing the faithlessness of women: a she-wolf, a cat that eats a mouse, and a bird that leaves its cage.
{Manciple’s Tale}