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" The Physician's Tale " is one of The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century. It is a domestic drama about the relationship between a daughter and her father, based on a tale from the Histories of Titus Livius and retold in The Romance of the Rose.
Summary and Analysis The Physician's Tale. Virginius, a knight, has only one child, Virginia, whose beauty is beyond compare and who is endowed with all the other noble virtues. One morning, in town, a judge named Apius (or Appius) catches sight of the daughter, is smitten by her beauty and purity, and determines to have her at any cost.
The Physician 's Tale. As Titus Livius tells us, there was once a knight called Virginius who had many friends, much wealth, and a loving wife and daughter. The daughter possessed a beauty so great that even Pygmalion could not have created her equal. She was also humble in speech and avoided events which might compromise her virtue.
6.1 The Physician's Tale. The "urinal" that the doctor is examining comes from Harry Bailey's words in the Introduction to the Pardoner's Tale, the richness of his attire from the General Prologue: In sangwyn and in pers he clad was al, Lyned with taffata and with sendal.
The Physician’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The tale is a version of a story related both by the Roman historian Livy and in the 13th-century Roman de la Rose. It concerns the lust of the evil judge Appius for the beautiful, chaste Virginia.
The Physician's Tale. 1 Ther was, as telleth Titus Livius, There was, as Titus Livius tells, 2 A knyght that called was Virginius, A knight who was called Virginius, 3 Fulfild of honour and of worthynesse, Filled with honor and with worthiness, 4 And strong of freendes, and of greet richesse. And having powerful friends, and great wealth.
Little in the Physician’s portrait in the General Prologue befits a tale whose origin stretches back to the ancient Roman historian Livy and whose conclusion leads to a religious lesson, for the General Prologue says that the Physician’s “studie was but litel on the Bible” (438).
