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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Geoffrey Chaucer (born 1340/44, died 1400) is remembered as the author of The Canterbury Tales, which ranks as one of the greatest epic works of world literature. Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London. He was the son of a prosperous wine merchant and deputy to the king's butler, and his wife Agnes. In 1359-1360 Chaucer went to France with Edward III's army during the Hundred Years' War. now about the Merchant merchant claims that he knows nothing of long-suffering wives. Rather, if his wife were to marry the devil, she would overmatch even him, the merchant tells a tale about a prosperous Knight from Lombardy who had not yet taken a wife. But when this knight turn 60 he finally decided to be married. he wish to have an younger wife no older than 30. he searched for prospects now convinced that the married life was a paradise on earth. January his intended May in a joyous ceremony. On their wedding Knight January was consumed with lust. The structureof the merchant tale is some what lopsided while the merchant prepares the reader for a story of a villanous wife, he instead begins the tale with and extended dissertion about the benefits,and draw backs of marriage. he holds irrational expectations for his wife. The merchant therefore dooms the marriage of him and her from the outset. the merchant tale also stretches the conventions.
