Wordsworth's versions of The Prioress's Tale, The
Manciple's Tale, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Cuckoo and the Nightingale address the exceptions to what is, with Chaucerian intelligibility, "almost always" the case.
This daytime sleep parallels that of Chaucers Cook, who drowses on his horse in the
Manciple's Prologue and is criticised by the Host for his untimely 'slepe by the morwe'.
The Ellesmere miniatures, however, show girdles on the Parson and Chaucer, as well as on the Reeve,
Manciple, Wife of Bath, Merchant, Squire, Canon's Yeoman, Second Nun, and Nun's Priest; on the other hand, the Man of Law's "ceint of silk" is omitted (see Edwin Piper, "The Miniatures of the Ellesmere Chaucer," Philological Quarterly 3 [1924]: 241-56).
Other essays in the collection include "Wit, Laughter, and Authority in Walter Map's De nugis curialium (Courtiers' Trifles)" by Sebastian Coxon, "The Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer's
Manciple's Tale as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Richardian Context" by Anita Obermeier, "Vernacular Auctoritas in Late Medieval England: Writing After the Constitutions" by Kirsty Campbell, "Master Henryson and Father Aesop" by Iain MacLeod Higgins, and "Erasmus's Lucubationes: Genesis of a Literary Oeuvre" by Mark Vessey.
Here the false tercel's love of "novelries" has led him to desire a baser species, a kite; in the revision of this exemplum in
Manciple's Tale, the caged bird's "kynde" misleads it into desiring "wormes and swich wrecchednesse" [Manciple's Tale, CT IX 171).
Coley (English, Simon Fraser U., British Columbia) offers analysis of works by Chaucer (Saint Erkenwald and "The
Manciple's Tale"), Marian lyrics by Thomas Hoccleve, and John Gower's Confessio Amantis, as well as the Wars of Alexander, utilizing methodology drawn from speech-act theory, especially that which concerns performative utterances (as propounded by J.L.
The fifth-grader from the Forest Hills Montessori School spelled "
manciple" (servant or steward) and "pergelisol" (similar to permafrost) to land himself a spot in the next league.
There's even an operetta, conducted by the
Manciple, in which Apollo brands his musical white crow with black feathers.
Manciple in openly reproving the drunken Cook (MancT H 69-70).
The Clerk, the Cook, the Parson and the
Manciple are all part of which literary work?
Before beginning our field visits, which would keep us out of the classroom for three weeks, we previewed the first two major assignments for the seminar (described below) and, to give the course a sense of literary depth, discussed three works: Ovid's "Story of Phoebus and Coronis," Geoffrey Chaucer's "The
Manciple's Tale," and Robert Olen Butler's "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot." The first two works are clearly related: Chaucer retells Ovid's cautionary tale of a talking crow that reveals a woman's infidelity to her husband who, in a fit of jealousy, kills her.