Three Phrases in the Canterbury Tales: 'Your Dyvyntee' (FrT 3.1518), 'Your Gentillesse' (SqT 5.695), 'Goode Lief' (WBP 3.431)

Author / Editor
Miller, Clarence H.

Title
Three Phrases in the Canterbury Tales: 'Your Dyvyntee' (FrT 3.1518), 'Your Gentillesse' (SqT 5.695), 'Goode Lief' (WBP 3.431)

Published
Notes and Queries 237 (1992): 152-55.

Description
Suggests that the switches to "you(r)" in the passages cited are ironic and indicate the scorn of the speaker.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.