From Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", The Summoner's Tale, Table of Contents

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The Canterbury Tales

From Geoffrey Chaucer's
The Canterbury Tales:

The Summoner's
Prologue and Tale
(About)

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001-044: The Summoner's Prologue

045-630: The Summoner's Tale

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The Summoner's Prologue

001-018: The Summoner comments on the Friar's tale

019-044: Where friars come from according to the Summoner

The Summoner's Tale

045-096: About a friar from Yorkshire and his practice

097-100: The interruption by the Friar and the Host

101-135: The friar visits his friend Thomas and wife

136-171: The friar complains about their small church contribution and attendance

172-189: Thomas' wife offers the friar a meal and says their son has recently died

190-220: The friar says he saw his death in revelation and explains this friarly power of sudden revelation by strict abstinence

221-229: The abstinence of Moses

230-239: The abstinence of Aaron

240-253: The abstinence of Jesus

254-283: The friar insists on a fair donation

284-289: Thomas says he has given his fortune to several friars

290-352: The friar says Thomas should not trust other friars and not even his wife

353-378: An example about the logic of a ruthless dictator

379-414: Another ill-tempered dictator

415-424: King Cyrus destroyed a river in which a horse of him drowned

425-456: The friar insists on cajoling Thomas out of gold

457-479: Thomas offers the friar something on the condition that he divides it equally among the other friars

480-491: Thomas farts thunderously in the friar's hand

492-511: The insulted friar is chased away by Thomas' servants and meets the lord of the village

512-535: The friar shares his thoughts with his hosts

536-551: The lady of the house agrees on the churlishness of Thomas' behaviour

552-578: The host is puzzled by the intellectual challenge of dividing the indivisible fart

579-588: The lord's squire offers the solution if he is rewarded

589-622: A theory on dividing the indivisible fart

623-630: The squire has earned his reward

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