One character in this work knows the markets so well that "he never found himself left and high and dry," while the brother of another character pays "his taxes, fully, fairly, well."
One character in this work knows the markets so well that "he never found himself left and high and dry," while the brother of another character pays "his taxes, fully, fairly, well." The narrator is asked, "What man are you?", before he begins reciting a long rhyme he learned as a child, but he is interrupted part way through that story of Sir Topas by that same questioner, Harry Bailey. This work starts out at the Tabard Inn in Southwark (SUTH-erk) where "at nightfall to that hostelry / Some nine and twenty in a company" arrive. For 10 points, name this work in which that group decides to set out together toward the titular location of Thomas Becket's death on a pilgrimage, an unfinished work in which four stories were to be told by each character as written by Geoffrey Chaucer.
One character in this work knows the markets so well that "he never found himself left and high and dry," while the brother of another character pays "his taxes, fully, fairly, well."
The {Canterbury} Tales