'Mulier est hominis confusio': Note on Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale, Line 3164

Author / Editor
Dane, Joseph A.

Title
'Mulier est hominis confusio': Note on Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale, Line 3164

Published
Notes and Queries 237 (1992): 276-78.

Description
Line 3164 of NPT includes a pun, for "confusio" is also a technical term referring to the meaning of words. The joke: an apparent mistranslation is not one.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.