Below you will find twenty-two quotations from the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Identify the character to whom the quotation refers and explain its importance in understanding the character. Provide additional relevant information about the character.

1. He knew of every judgement, case and crime Recorded, ever since King William's time.

2. Their knives were not tricked out with brass But wrought with purest silver.

3. He was embroidered like a meadow bright And full of freshest flowers, red and white.

4. He could heave any door off hinge and post, Or take a run and break it with his head.

5. He would allow--just for a quart of wine- - Any good lad to keep a concubine.

6. That if gold rust, what then will iron do?

7. Now isn't it a marvel of God's grace That an illiterate fellow can outpace The wisdom of a heap of learned men.

8. The Rule of good St Benet or St Maur As old and strict he tended to ignore.

9. White as a daisy-petal was his beard A sanguine man, high-coloured and benign.

10. Gold stimulates the heart, or so we're told He therefore had a special love of gold.

11. Pleasant and friendly in her ways, and straining To counterfeit a courtly kind of grace.

12. How well he read a lesson or told a story! But best of all he sang an Offertory.

13. He kept his tippet stuffed with pins and curls, And pocket knives, to give to pretty girls.

14. He wore a fustian tunic stained and dark With smudges where his armour had left mark.

15. And knew the remedies for love's mischances, An art in which she knew the oldest dances.

16. And he was too unworldly to make search For secular employment.

17. The nicer rules of conscience he ignored.

18. No bailiff, serf, or herdsman dared to kick, He knew their dodges, knew their every trick.

19. His head was like a nut, his face was brown. He knew the whole of woodcraft up and down.

20. None knew he was in debt, He was so stately in negotiations.

21... and he would help the poor For love of Christ and never take a penny If he could help it ...

22. But what a pity--so it seemed to me, That he should have an ulcer on his knee.