Based on the excerpt below from "The Prologue" of Chaucer's The Caterbury Tales, what was the purpose of the pilgrims’ trip? It happened in that season that one day In Southwark, at The Tabard, as I lay Ready to go on pilgrimage and start For Canterbury, most devout at heart, At night there came into that hostelry Some nine and twenty in a company Of sundry folk happening then to fall / In fellowship, and they were pilgrims all That towards Canterbury meant to ride.
a. to stay at the Tabard.
b. to go on a pilgrimage.
c. to meet twenty-nine people.
d. to enjoy the spring season.