Who says the following and why? "don't ask me. i've been away in india for several years; and manners have changed so much that i sometimes don't know whether i'm at a respectable dinner-table or in a ship's forecastle."

the answer is: tabard inn, southwark.

in "the canterbury tales," by geoffrey chaucer, the twenty-nine diverse group of pilgrims is staying at a tavern in southwark, london, as they are traveling to canterbury. they wish to visit the relics of saint thomas becket in canterbury   cathedral in order to him for his when they underwent necessities.

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