The "Hevenlich Mede" in Chaucer’s "Truth."

Author / Editor
Ragan, James F.

Title
The "Hevenlich Mede" in Chaucer’s "Truth."

Published
Modern Language Notes 68, no. 8 (1953): 534-35.

Description
Glosses "hevenlich mede" in Truth (line 27) as "heavenly meadow" rather than "heavenly reward," adducing phonology and puns elsewhere in the poem.

Chaucer Subjects
Truth
Language and Word Studies
Style and Versification