The Manciple ends his tale by saying, "He is thral to whom that he hath sayd / A tale of which he is now yvele apayd. / My sone, be war, and be noon auctour newe / Of tidynges, wheither they been false or trewe. / Whereso thou come, amonges hye or lowe, / Kepe wel thy tonge and thenk upon the crowe." (L. 357ff) This is not only incredibly revealing with regards to Chaucer's conception of discourse but also by extension alludes to the Tales themselves. Chaucer here, uses the tale from Ovid to make this strong point that one's words in a sense serve as a mill stone around one's neck. Moreover, he states taht regardless of the veracity or the tone of events it is better to be silent. This is curious because the Tales have themselves been fashioned as a compendia of stories and interactions from a particular event. Chaucer very directly seems to be referencing his trade and hinting at the dangers of verbosity.

This has been pointed to throughout the Manciple's tale, as he says "A jangler is to God abhomynable." (L. 343) This may again be the self-deprecation that Chaucer uses, as a means of fashioning the Canterbury Tales as a report of an actual event, while simultaneously highlighting its very textual nature. It is interesting that throughout this course we have seen Chaucer using other stories. In the aggregate one truly gets a sense of the deftness with which he chooses and then adapts stories to convey particular themes and the way he puts them into the mouth of his characters. In the case of the Manciple, whose words nearly get him in a fight in the Prologue his tale seems particularly fitting.