The Clerk's Prologue and Tale

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'The Cleric's Tale' is the first tale of Group E in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. It is followed by The Merchant's Tale. The Clerk of Oxenford (modern Oxford) is a student of what would nowadays be considered philosophy or theology. He tells the tale of Griselda, a young woman whose husband tests her loyalty in a series of bizarre torments that recall the Biblical book of Job.

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Marquis Walter, of Saluzzo in Italy, acquiesces to his subjects' wish that he take a wife. He selects Griselda, the