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The Temple: Church and precinct (part 1 of 3) British History Online
In this reign Chaucer, who is supposed to have been a student of the Middle Temple, and who is said to have once beaten an insolent Franciscan friar in...

Carol Dances: Medieval/Renaissance
This carol is mentioned by Chaucer in his late 14th century Miller's Tale,... steps alternating starting foot) - as in the English Inns of Court dances...

Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; full-text; Complete Poetical ...
A poor Franciscan friar, half-starved and crazed,... The monk was up betimes and of good cheer,... Was beaten worse than he had been before...

canterbury tales
The name of the inn was, some three centuries after Chaucer, changed to the... Go bet: a hunting phrase; apparently its force is, "go beat up the game...

Fleet Street: General Introduction British History Online
The poet Chaucer is said to have beaten a saucy Franciscan friar in Fleet... Street between the hot-blooded youths of the Inns of Court and the citizens,...

Chaucer Beat Up a Franciscan Friar At Inns Of Court
Chaucer Beat Up a Franciscan Friar At Inns Of Court