![](https://d.lib.rochester.edu/sites/default/files/styles/themepage/public/105.jpg?itok=9V26_7ov)
"Til that oure Hooste japen tho bigan,
And thanne at erst he looked upon me,
And seyde thus: 'What man artow?' quod he;
'Thou lookest as thou woldest fynde an hare,
For evere upon the ground I se thee stare.
Approche neer, and looke up murily.
Now war yow, sires, and lat this man have place!'"
The Chaucer pilgrim starts by telling the tale of Sir Thopas, a romance that is interrupted by the Host, who declares that Chaucer's "rymyng is nat woorth a toord!" (2120). Instead, Chaucer turns to the long, moral prose tale of Melibee.
And thanne at erst he looked upon me,
And seyde thus: 'What man artow?' quod he;
'Thou lookest as thou woldest fynde an hare,
For evere upon the ground I se thee stare.
Approche neer, and looke up murily.
Now war yow, sires, and lat this man have place!'"
The Chaucer pilgrim starts by telling the tale of Sir Thopas, a romance that is interrupted by the Host, who declares that Chaucer's "rymyng is nat woorth a toord!" (2120). Instead, Chaucer turns to the long, moral prose tale of Melibee.
Bibliography
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer . Ed. Larry D. Benson. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton, 1987.
Ford Madox Brown (1821 - October 6, 1893)
Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 - June 16, 1898)
Sir W. Russell Flint (1880 - 1969)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 - November 2, 1975)
Hugh Thomson (1860 - 1920)
Milo Winter (1888 - August 15, 1956)
![Coat of Arms](https://d.lib.rochester.edu/sites/default/files/styles/creatorpage/public/1602%20Title%20Page%20Unicorn%20crop.jpg?itok=g4jgjn6i)
![The Chaucer Pilgrim](https://d.lib.rochester.edu/sites/default/files/styles/creatorpage/public/Chaucers%20Tale%20Of%20Melibeus%201721.jpg?itok=JJy_qi80)
![Sir Thopaz](https://d.lib.rochester.edu/sites/default/files/styles/creatorpage/public/Sir%20Topaz.jpg?itok=-cA_lRci)
Ford Madox Brown (1821 - October 6, 1893)
![Chaucer reading to Edward III](https://d.lib.rochester.edu/sites/default/files/styles/creatorpage/public/28%20Brown.jpg?itok=-XkmMfoh)
Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 - June 16, 1898)
![Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote...](https://d.lib.rochester.edu/sites/default/files/styles/creatorpage/public/Works_of_Chaucer-2-cropped.jpg?itok=bs6gXear)
![Here taketh the makere of this book his leve.](https://d.lib.rochester.edu/sites/default/files/styles/creatorpage/public/Works_of_Chaucer-29-cropped.jpg?itok=5fwYrDh5)
![Geoffrey Chaucer](https://d.lib.rochester.edu/sites/default/files/styles/creatorpage/public/Chaucer.jpg?itok=x_YVDZUZ)
Sir W. Russell Flint (1880 - 1969)
![“Judith, by hir good conseil...](https://d.lib.rochester.edu/sites/default/files/styles/creatorpage/public/201_2.jpg?itok=2QOJdJ2G)
![Chaucer](https://d.lib.rochester.edu/sites/default/files/styles/creatorpage/public/150_0.jpg?itok=q9mzM7nT)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 - November 2, 1975)
![Geoffrey Chaucer](https://d.lib.rochester.edu/sites/default/files/styles/creatorpage/public/Chaucer.jpg?itok=x_YVDZUZ)
![Prudence Seeking to Comfort Melibeus](https://d.lib.rochester.edu/sites/default/files/styles/creatorpage/public/144.jpg?itok=Tkeslgav)
Hugh Thomson (1860 - 1920)
![He has a waist as fairly-shaped as mine.](https://d.lib.rochester.edu/sites/default/files/styles/creatorpage/public/105.jpg?itok=NSRJVpRK)
Milo Winter (1888 - August 15, 1956)
![Come here, Sir Priest! ride in the midst with me!](https://d.lib.rochester.edu/sites/default/files/styles/creatorpage/public/160.jpg?itok=-jR_KNJA)
![Trencher, tankard, pot, and cannikin Appeased all rancors of the road](https://d.lib.rochester.edu/sites/default/files/styles/creatorpage/public/258.jpg?itok=fxtVhrqi)