Chaucer and the Humor of the Canterbury Tales

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Birney p, 81 middle Alisoun: is basically the only one that escapes this fiasco with no punshment or repercussion on her. Birney is trying to prove that she escapes unscathed because of her lukewarm personality. She was neither uninhibited or anal cumpulsive...
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Birney is trying to prove that she escapes unscathed because of her lukewarm personality. She was neither uninhibited or anal cumpulsive. And she knew when to have an affair or play a cruel joke on someone. Birney 81 last lines.
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