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> A peculiarly repellent tale, of course, and one has to wonder at
> Chaucer's motives for including it. As his depiction of the Prioress
> is not overwhelmingly positive, one rather hopes that he was being
> ironic. (As was Richard of Devizes two hundred years earlier.)
>
> John Briggs
The Prioress is terribly sentimental -- she travels with her precious
doggie -- & this story certainly fits with that kind of attitude.
DW
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