... that are familiar to us were often new to Chaucer's first audiences, lending his "high style- passages in a time that forces hard for us to recapture today, and they help define the tone of works such as The Knight's Tale-: Than is the lilie upon his stalk grene, And fresher than the May with floures new- For with the rose colour ... are so recognizable by men and women, members of a community with the characters that are so colorfully drawn out by Chaucer; Pandarus and Criseyde, the Prioress, the Monk , and the Friar, the Pardoner, the Wife of Bath, Alisoun and Absolon, Januarie and Ma...

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