In "The Prologue" of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the Chaucer's main reason for writing about the pilgrimage is to create a setting for telling stories by different characters.
Explanation:
The prologue of "Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer y Percy MacKaye talks about the welcoming of spring and how several characters are willing and happily want to start the pilgrimage, this is the first stage where the characters will show themselves and their personalities as the story is being told.
The word steal is meant to show that it was against the law for slaves to become educated. The author most likely used this word to emphasize how risky it was for a slave to learn to read