No m’lord. It wouldn’t be a secret army if we had seen it. My squire, who has not had the opportunity to be clearly informed about the presence of a secret army, has been ignorant of its existence.

Gary Edward Gedall
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In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses the word m’lord and its compound nouns and pronouns and adverbs to create a bit of a puzzle for his readers. He gives us a lot of information about his characters, but he also allows them to speak directly to us. In this quote, Chaucer is describing his squire, who is a young man working for the knight in whose castle the group travels. His squire has been told nothing about this secret army, and so he doesn’t know that there is one.

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