... expose the pilgrim Chaucer. Each of the stories in The Canterbury Tales are to be told with the utmost accuracy, suggesting Chaucer's literacy. ?Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce as ny as evere he can Everish a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large; Or elles he ... moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thing, or finde wordes newe.? (Lines 731-736) Chaucer tells us that to repeat another man's tale, one must rehearse it as it is ... ...

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