The Bishop’s Tale

Authors: Margaret Frazer

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“The coals in the brazier in the corner had burned too low even to glow, though the room was still thickly warm with their heat and the crowding of people who had been there. Now there were only two men, and one of them was dying. Thomas Chaucer lay motionless in the wide bed, raised a little on his pillows. It was a rich bed, with the glint of gold threads in the embroidered coverlet and hung with pattern-woven curtains. And what could be seen of the room in die small reach of the candlelight w...as equally rich, the furnishings deeply carved, the ceiling beams painted in twined vines and singing birds. Now, for this occasion, one of the chests along the wall was covered with a white cloth and set out for priestly matters. Between two stately burning beeswax candles were a small vessel of sacred oil, another of holy water, and a golden box for the consecrated wafers. Cardinal Bishop Beaufort of Winchester, tall beyond the ordinary and seeming more so in his furred, scarlet gown and in the low light, moved from the chest to stand beside the bed again.MoreLess Read More Read Less