Question

Which line in this excerpt from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales contradicts the claim made in the third line that the prioress speaks fluent French?

Answer 1

Her greatest oath was but By Saint Eloy!

And she was known as Madam Eglantine…

And fair she spoke her French, and fluently,

After the school of Stratford-at-the-Bow,

For French of Paris was not hers to know.

At table she had been well taught withal,

And never from her lips let morsels fall,…