Read the excerpt from "the nun's priest's tale." if you beguile me, having done so once, you shall no more, with any flattery, cause me to sing and close up either eye. for he who shuts his eyes when he should see, and wilfully, god let him ne'er be free! which best identifies the speaker and the context of this excerpt?
a. chanticleer is telling pertelote about his dream of being killed by a beast.
b. pertelote is flattering chanticleer, telling him to sing and his beautiful voice will him forget his bad dream.
c. chanticleer is telling the fox he (chanticleer) will not fall for the fox's flattery a second time.
d. the fox is telling chanticleer that chanticleer has a beautiful voice and the fox is not trying to trick him with flattery.

c. Chanticleer is telling the fox he (Chanticleer) will not fall for the fox's flattery a second time.

Explanation:

The Nun's Priest's Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales by the Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

Characters mentioned in this exercise:

Chanticleer: a chicken

The fox

Pertelote: a hen

In this excerpt from the text, the speaker is Chanticleer and he is telling the fox he (Chanticleer) will not fall for the fox's flattery a second time, therefore, option c is the correct answer. At this particular moment, Chanticleer has flown out of the fox’s mouth and into a high tree, and the fox is trying to convince the chicken to come down. However, when the fox meet Chanticleer for the first time, he (the fox) flattered the chicken's magnificent signing and, in order to catch the chicken, the fox led him to close his eyes and sing. Chanticleer fell for the flattery and sang, and as while he was distracted, the fox grabbed him and took him into the woods. Chanticleer managed to escape and climbed a tree. And now the fox tries to flatter him again, but he answers that he is not going to fall for that trick again (If you beguile me, having done so once, You shall no more, with any flattery, Cause me to sing and close up either eye) because he has learned the lesson: never to trust a flatterer. (For he who shuts his eyes when he should see, And wilfully, God let him ne'er be free!)

Option a is not correct because the moment in which Chanticleer speaks to Pertelote about his bad dream  happens before the one in the excerpt.

Option b is not correct because Pertelote is not present in the moment of the excerpt.

Option d is not correct because Chanticleer is the speaker of the excerpt, not the fox.

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explanation:

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