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though he used London dialect to write The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer contributed a lot to prosody in English poetry, and was the first English poet to write with heroic couplet (two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter). She wet her fingers lightly in the dish / Of sauce: She never dipped her fingers in the sauce too deep. From the context, it can be known that she wanted to avoid gluttony. Chaucer?s original text for the last two lines “On it a larger A and a crown above。s desires, and bees thus objectified in the process. seven holy virtues: humility, chastity (purity of soul), diligence (zeal/initiative), temperance (selfrestraint), fiveness, kindness (admiration), charity (giving) “Choosing thus simply for the time to ride”: Chaucer?s original text for this sentence is “At that time, for him liste ride so.” “l(fā)iste” means “it pleased him to,” so this sentence means that the Knight chose a yeoman as servant to ride with him for the time being, which pleased the Knight. A yeoman is an independent moner who acts as the Knight?s military servant. “By St.