Middle English Reading (5 extra-credit points): Choose one of the portraits in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales (excluding the portraits that we talked about in class).  Prepare about ten lines of the portrait to read out loud in class in the original Middle English.  Be sure to choose a group of lines that constitute a complete thought; don't break off or begin in mid-sentence.  Also, try to choose a passage that has some interesting features (that really sums up the character described or that is a good example of Chaucerian irony, for example).  Prepare a word-for-word translation of your ten or so lines to turn in to me.  Also, include with your translation a brief commentary (1/2 a page at the most) that explains what you found interesting about the lines you chose.