The Cook

The Cook tells a story about an aprentice named Perkyn Revelour. He describes him getting the nick name by his tiddy and neat apperance and fashionable hair. He was also a noted alcoholic and festive person at wedding parties. He was also invovled in riots and this made his master angry with him. "That fond his maister wel in his chaffare; For often tyme he foond his box ful bare. For sikerly a prentys revelour That haunteth dys, riot, or paramour, His maister shal it in his shoppe abye, Al have he no part of the mynstralcye. For thefte and riot, they been convertible Al konne he pleye on gyterne or ribible. Revel and trouthe, as in a lowe degree,
They been ful wrothe al day, as men may see." This direct text best sums up the cook's tale in the best possible way. Chauncer never finished the cook's tale and it is had a subtle and vague ending.