And Gladly Teche
- Author / Editor
- Beall, Chandler B.
And Gladly Teche
- Published
- English Language Notes 13 (1975): 85-86.
- Description
- The famous descriptive epithet of the Clerk, "And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche" (GP, 308), may have been suggested by a sentence from Seneca's epistle to Lucilius (VI,4): "Ego vero omnia in te cupio transfundere, et in hoc aliquid gaudeo discere, ut doceam."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.