e's sense of maternal instincts toward her pets. However, the dogs also live lavish lifestyles and eat better than many humans did at the time. The Prioress speaks French, however she does not speak it well. She speaks French after the class of "Stratford-atte-Bowe" speakers, meaning she learned it in the convent. She is certainly not the ideal nun. Her sexuality, sinfulness and lavish ways are amplified by her pampered lifestyle and expensive jewelry. "She wore a coral trinket on her arm/ a set of beads, the gaudies tricked in green/ whence hung a golden broach of brightest sheen/ on which there was graven a crowned A ... (Chaucer 162-165). The "set of beads" or rosary the Prioress carried with her were probably very expensive. In fact, the
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