Literature/Geoffrey Chaucer/The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1387–1400

The Doctor’s TaleThe Prologue

“Yea, let that passe,” quoth our Host, “as now.Sir Doctor of Physik, I praye you,Tell us a tale of some honest mattere.”“It shall be done, if that ye will it hear,”Said this Doctor; and his tale gan anon.“Now, good men,” quoth he, “hearken everyone.”