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George WashingtonGeorge WashingtonA.M.D.G.Brian CawneenJunior English 5Mr.McKenna/Ms. BogartNovember 22,2005De Taciturnus Scribus“As coy and quiet as a virgin-wife, newly espoused and sitting mum at the table! You haven’t said a word since we left the stable”(“The Clerk’s Tale”320). These words that Chaucer uses to begin his exemplary tale on the Clerk, establish the Clerk as an impotent,.