Chaucer's Shipman's Tale, Lines 138-41

Author / Editor
Green, Richard Firth.

Title
Chaucer's Shipman's Tale, Lines 138-41

Published
Chaucer Review 26 (1991): 95-98.

Description
Lines 138-41 are authorial commentary and should be punctuated as such. The revised reading makes more immediate sense, adding parallelism and a touch of Chaucerian irony.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.