In the Canterbury Tales, what is the moral of the Manciple's Tale?

Answer 1

In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer is contrasting the shrewd practical knowledge of the Manciple with what we suppose to be the naivete of the young legal scholars. Chaucer dramatized a quarrel between the Manciple and the Cook, since the two had a working relationship, and possibly a real dislike for each other.
There is no clear moral to the Manciple's Tale, since we are most likely to neither approve or disapprove of him.