#  Explanatory Notes to The Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tale: A Check List (Lines I.859-3108) 

 



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Here are a list of subjects, a sample of the Explanatory Notes for The Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tale in *The Canterbury Tales Complete* and *The Riverside Chaucer*. Jot down a brief explanation of each of the following terms; then check your answers against the notes cited in parentheses at the end of each entry.

1\) fabliaux (see Expl. Note, p. 372)   
  
2\) a legende and a life (I.3141)  
  
3\) Almageste (I.3208)  
  
4\) clerk (see Expl. Notes, p. 344-45)  
  
5\) Catoun (or Cato) (I.3227).   
  
6\) lemman (I.3726).  
  
7\) Absolon (I.3312-38).  
  
8\) Herodes (I.3384)  
  
9\) Noah's flood (I.3538-43).  
  
10\) The Northern Dialect (I.4022).   
  
11\) sententia (I. 4320-21)  
  
12\) compline (I.4171).  
  
13\) the thridde cok (I.4233)  
  
14\) wilde fyr (I.4172, III.373).  
  
15\) Chepe (I.4377)

If you get twelve or more of these right, you have done well; if you got less than that, you should probably browse through those notes once more.