The Cook's Tale:

Chaucer only completed fifty or so lines of this fragment. The tale begins by describing an apprentice who spent most of his life in the pursuit of pleasures. He secured from his master leave for the night, which he spent in drunken revelry. The tale ends here. It is likely that the tale would continue the pattern of the previous tales in telling a comic tale, possibly in the fabliau mold.

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