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1. In comparison with fabliaux like that, the misbehaviour of the monk and the wife is all too deliberate and plausible.

2. The proposition that the fabliau is an appropriate mode for an argument between two churls is explicitly Chaucer's.

3. The Anglo-Norman fabliaux are preserved in manuscripts that are miscellaneous literary anthologies.

4. The subset containing fabliaux with lavatory humour, tales concerning basic bodily functions of excretion or flatulence, are fewer in number.

5. Barat et Haimet is one of the robber's tales,(Sentencedict.com) relatively long and preserved in four large manuscript collections of fabliaux.

6. We also find something close to the marked language characteristic of fabliaux in Dame Sirith's parting words to Wilekin.

7. This anthropocentric view and attitude is one facet of what is frequently identified as the realism of the fabliaux.

8. Warning rather than exhortation to virtue is the style of the fabliau morals.

9. As at the end of Dame Sirith, the cycle of fabliau narrative is ready to roll around again.

10. Yet we have already noted how, in terms of poetic justice for instance, fabliau morality is often conventional in precisely these terms.

11. Usually, however, the dividing lines in this sort of linguistic stratification are simply annihilated in the fabliaux.

12. Only I wish we have not got King Stork, instead of King Log, like the fabliau (fable) that the Clerk of Saint Lambert's used to read us out of Meister Aesop's book.