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Read the excerpt from "The General Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales. But natheless, while I have time and space, Ere that I farther in this tale pace, Me thinketh it accordant to reason, To tell you alle the condition Of each of them, so as it seemed me, And which they weren, and of what degree; And eke in what array that they were in. According to this passage, what is Chaucer about to reveal? his tale about a pilgrimage just like the one he is now on his observations about who each pilgrim is, what his/her position in society is, and what he/she looks like his reasons for going on this pilgrimage to Canterbury his annoyance with the host for interrupting his tale.

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His observations about who each pilgrim is, what his/her position in society is, and what he/she looks like.

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Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is a collection of stories/ tales told by the thirty pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. These tales are told by people from different backgrounds, and from differing professions.

The given excerpt given in the question is from the initial part of "The General Prologue" where the narrator is giving the readers an introduction about the pilgrims before the start of their tales. He states that before he goes on to begin his story, he will first introduce the twenty nine pilgrims in the group. This introduction will give the picture of who they are, what they do and how they are dressed at that moment of the story.

Thus, through the excerpt, Chaucer is going to reveal his observations about the pilgrims, what their positions are in the society and what they look like.

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