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n the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, the narrator, Geoffrey Chaucer, meets twenty nine pilgrims at the Southwark at the Tabard Inn.

They are all going to Canterbury Cathedral to visit the shrine of Sir Thomas Becket. Chaucer decides to tag along, taking some time to describe each pilgrim.

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The Squire from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this picture shows The Squire riding on horse, vintage line drawing or engraving illustration.

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In the picture of the Squire in the Ellesmere manuscript, he wears a short coat (1.

Photography The Squire from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, vintage illustration by Morphart.

The author uses many metaphors, personal histories, and examples of how they would act in certain situations to fully describe the characters in the story. However, some of the pilgrims are given only a few lines of direct description in a very straightforward, visual manner.

One of the characters in the tales is Squire, who gets only twenty lines of details, focusing on his appearance, his abilities, and his sexuality.

he physical description of the Squire illustrates him as if he was a Roman statue, or taken from a chivalric romance.

Chaucer describes his " lokkes crulle as they were leyd in presse"(Norton, 83), average height, great strength, "Of twenty yeer of age