The Manciple's Tale
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The Manciple's Tale
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"The Manciple's Tale" is part of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. It tends to appear near the end of most manuscripts of the poem, and the prologue to the final tale, "The Parson's Tale", makes it clear it was intended as the penultimate story in the collection. The Manciple, a purchasing agent for a law court, tells a fable about Phoebus Apollo and his pet crow, which is both an origin myth explaining the crow's black feathers and a moralistic injunction against gossip.
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Part of the Canterbury Tales
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manciple%27s_Tale
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2024-03-14T10:09:40Z
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