• The Clerk from The Canterbury Tales, as shown in a woodcut from 1492. The Clerk's Tale is one of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, told by the Clerk of Oxford...
  • The tale does indeed come from a tale of Petrarch’s; yet what the Clerk fails to mention in his citation is that Petrarch himself took it from Bocaccio’s Decameron...
  • “O noble wives, full of high prudence, Let no humility your tongues nail: Nor let no clerk have cause or diligence To write of you a story of such marvail, As of...
  • "O noble wives, full of high prudence, Let no humility your tongues nail: Nor let no clerk have cause or diligence To write of you a story of such marvail, As of...
  • Francis Petrarc’, the laureate poét,2428 Hightë2429 this clerk, whose rhetoric so sweet Illumin’d all Itále of poetry, As Linian2430 did of philosophy, Or law...
  • In an envoy to The Clerk's Tale, Chaucer warns all husbands not to test the patience of their wives in the hope of finding another patient Griselda "for in certein, ye...
  • The Clerk’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, published 1387–1400.
  • Here biginneth the Tale of the Clerk of Oxenford. Ther is, at the west syde of Itaille, Doun at the rote of Vesulus the colde
  • The Clerk adds that this story in not told as a model for wives to follow Griselda in humility (1142f) but that everyone ought to be "constant in adversitee" (1146).