Imagine leaving to go on a voyage to Canterbury. Traveling down the road to the designated meeting place, you see this short, stocky, extremely unattractive man riding up further along on the path. As you get closer you ask him where he is traveling? But before he can answer, you begin to stare at a huge wart on the end of his nose with stray black hairs growing out of it. But you can’t stop staring at his hideously, large, wide nostrils without thinking of all the other things on his nose. Topping it all off with his crude answer to your simple question. With a heavy heart you discover he will be accompanying you on this voyage to Canterbury. On the way to the meeting place he tells you how he would steal corn and sell it for three times as much. Looking him over again you see that he has a sword on his side. This leads you to assume he loves to fight and looking at his build you do not think many could defeat him. You sigh to yourself; this is going to be a “LONG” voyage! The pilgrim being described here is the miller. On page 1319 in our textbook, Davis the Miller’s description continues. The Miller’s character stands out from all the
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