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The literary history of the horse Bayard suggests that Chaucer's point in the reference is to underscore "a lack of providence" in Troilus conduct.

The word may denote the better of two kinds of carts in normal manorial use: a cart used for hauling outside the manor.

Chaucer uses traditional religious language, especially Marian and celestial terms, in Purse.

Medieval lapidary tradition strongly suggests that Troilus' ruby ring represents the powers and qualities of Criseyde.

The Devonshire MS. (c. 1450-60) of CT, purchased at Christie's on June 6, 1974, by an American dealer, had been noted as having a miniature full-length picture of Chaucer. The miniature is of a man seated on a flowery bank pointing to a gilt purse…

The lines (1.4087 and 4187) in RvT suggest the reading of "god" without the inflectional ending. Tolkien objects on grounds of meter, but we do not know enough about Chaucer's meter to emend on these grounds alone.

Unnoted allusions to Chaucer (and pseudo-Chaucer) in thirteen sixteenth-century works.

FranT line 5(F).1204 equals "The Tempest" 4.1, "our revels now are ended."

In his "Physicall and approved Medicines..." (London, 1611) Edmund Gardiner cites Galfridus Chaucer as one of his authorities and quotes a version of GP, I (A), 443-44: "For Gold in Physicke is a cordiall: / Wherefore he loved Golde in speciall."

In the astrological setting of TC (2.54-55), Chaucer refers to Taurus as a "white Bole." The epithet probably came from Virgil (Georgics, I, 217-18), perhaps through the intermediary of Macrobius' "Commentary on the Dream of Scipio." It is…

In TC, 5.804, Diomede is said to be "of tonge large," a phrase that perhaps owes a debt to the "Aeneid" (9.338), where Drances is described as "largus opum et lingua melior." Koch's view in "Chaucers Belesenheit in den romischen Klassikern" that…

Twice the carpenter in MilT uses "astromye": is it a malapropism, an acceptable variant, or a scribal error? Since according to Manly-Rickert all mss of CT record "astromye," the last of these is not tenable. And since the word thus misused does…

The line reads "Thy pourynge ('vrr.' pouryng, powringe) in wol nowher lat hem dwelle." All evidence--context, lexicographical, manuscript--indicates that it means "peering-in, gazing-in," from ME "pouren"; and not "pouring-in."

The discovery of Dryden's indebtedness to Chaucer (TC, V, 817: "That Paradis stood formed in hire yen") for a line in "Absalom" ("And 'Paradise' was open'd in his face") is attributed in the California edition of Dryden's works to an article…

The Parson's quotation from St. John Chrysostom (10.109-10) is translated from St. Raymund of Pennaforte's "Summa Casuum Poenitentiae." Its ultimate source, however, is a Latin homily (not in the modern editions of the fathers), the "Sermo de…

The detail in "The Two Noble Kinsmen" IV.ii.103-05, where the blond prince's locks are said to be "hard-haired" and "curled," suggest that Shakespeare and Fletcher used Speght's 1602 edition of Chaucer when they based their play on KnT. In that…

Similarities between Chaucer's description of the knight and the descriptions in "Warwick Pageant," a fifteenth-century complimentary biography of the Earl of Warwick, indicate that Chaucer's description contains not irony but praise.

"Astromye" is neither a scribal error nor an acceptable variant for "astronomye" but a malapropism that probably appeared originally as "arstromye," containing a pun in the first syllable.

British Libreary NMS Additional 12524 was owned successively by Samuel Smith, Ralph Thoresby, and Horace Walpole. British Library MS Additional 9832, owned by Morell Thurston and them by Joseph Haselwood, was used by Urry for his edition. Both…

Although Ann Thompson's "Shakespeare's Chaucer: A Study in Literary Origins" explores parallels between TC and LGW and "The Merchant of Venice," it does not note the Chaucerian echoes in Portia's warning of Bassanio (5.1.23Off.), which is similar to…

Tolkien's "errantry" parodies Th, esp. in arming of heroes and in "The Lord of the Rings."

Lists additions to Robinson's table of parallels between Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato" and TC.

John Hardyng borrows TC III.617 for his verse "Chronicle."

In Sir Richard Barckley's "A Discourse of the Felicitie of Man: Or his Summum Bonum" (1598) occurs an allusion to the fox chase in NPT.

The origin of "forlynen" in Chaucer's Bo is the OF "forlignier," taken from Jean de Meun.