Tell-Tale Context: Two Notes on Biblical Quotation in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Bugge, John
Tell-Tale Context: Two Notes on Biblical Quotation in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- American Notes and Queries 14 (1976): 82-85.
- Description
- The Prioress by omitting the passage which extolls King David in Psalm 8 betrays herself as ignorant of history. The Friar in blending vv.8-9 of Psalm 10 omits passages which chastise the aggrandisement of the friars at the expense of the poor. Chaucer says that the clergy should have followed the scriptures.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Friar and His Tale.