Canterbury Tales Pilgrims: Doctor & Miller

1. Canterbury Tales Pilgrims:Doctor & Miller Grayson Johnson Jose Hernandez Kylee Christoffersen Brad Clarke

2. THE DOCTOR

3. The Doctor • Medicine Man • Extremely Intelligent • “No one alive could talk as well as he did On points of medicine and of surgery, For, being grounded in astronomy,” Pg 133 lines 422-424

4. The Doctors Skill • The Doctor was very good at what he did. • “The cause of every malady you’d got He knew, and whether dry, cold, moist, or hot; He knew their seat, their humor and condition. He was a perfect practicing physician.” Pg 134 lines 429-432

5. The Doctor’s Appearance • He wears blood red garments with a bluish gray lined taffeta. • Very healthy and fit. • He takes his own advice and maintains his hygiene. “ In blood-red garments, slashed with bluish gray and lined with taffeta, he rode his way.” page 134 lines 449-450.

6. THE MILLER

7. The Miller • He was a thieving trader. “A thumb of gold , by God, to gauge an oat!”Pg. 137 Line 581 This means that the miller would press his thumb on the scale to give a false weight and price of the item he was trading.

8. Miller’s Appearance • Broad, knotty, and small. • Miller wore a hood of blue and a white coat. Along with a red beard and a wart on his nose. “His beard, like any sew or fox, was red and broad as well, as though is were a spade. And, at its very tip, his nose displayed a wart on which there stood a tuft of hair red as the bristles in an old sow’s ear.” - Page 137 lines 568- 572

9. Miller’s feelings • Very confident. - con-man • Only cares about himself, plus is full of greed. “ Broad, knotty, and short-shouldered, he would boast, he could heave and door off hinge and post, or take a run and break it with his head.” Lines 565-567 “ In other words, he pressed on the scale with his thumb to increase the weight of the grain. He was a thief of grain.” Line 581

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