• The metrical form of "The Monk's Tale" is the most complex of all the pilgrims', an eight-line stanza with rhyme scheme ABABBCBC.
  • He entreats the Monk to change tack, but the Monk sourly says he’s tired of talking. The Host invites the Priest who accompanies the Nun to tell a tale.
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  • The Monk’s Tale is unusual among Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in several respects. For one thing, it is interrupted by another pilgrim before it can be completed...
  • Ugolino and his other children died soon afterwards. The Monk tells his listeners that they can read a full account of the story in Dante's Divine Comedy.
  • Melibeus. The Monk’s Prologue. ... The Monk's Tale. Here biginneth the Monkes Tale, de Casibus Virorum Illustrium. I wol biwayle in maner of Tragedie.
  • 2>. But let us pass away from this mattere. My lord the Monk," quoth he, "be merry of cheer, For ye shall tell a tale truely. Lo, Rochester stands here faste by.
  • My lord the Monk,” quoth he, “be merry of cheer, For ye shall tell a talë truëlý. Lo, Rochester stands here fastë by.
  • The Monk spends a bit more time on the story of Samson, who killed a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass, then prayed to God to send him a drink of water.