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The Cook and His Tale

The Cook and His Tale

Character Background Essay Author:
"A Cook they hadde with hem for the nones
To boille the chiknes with the marybones,
And poudre-marchant tart and galyngale.
Well koude he knowe a draughte of Londoun ale.
He koude rooste, and sethe, and broille, and frye,
Maken mortreux, and wel bake a pye." (ll. 379-384)

The Cook's Tale is a fragment.  However, the Tale of Gamelyn is often misattributed to Chaucer and assigned to the Cook.
Bibliography

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer . Ed. Larry D. Benson. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton, 1987.