Chaucer's 'Friar's Tale', D.1377 and 1573
- Author / Editor
- Ross, Thomas W.
Chaucer's 'Friar's Tale', D.1377 and 1573
- Published
- Explicator 34 (1975): Item 17.
- Description
- The term "rebec" or "ribib(l)e", used by the Summoner to insult the old woman, meant fiddle, and then a woman with a shrill voice.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale.