A Theves Dede: A Case of Chaucer's Borrowing from Gower

Author / Editor
Juby, W. H.

Title
A Theves Dede: A Case of Chaucer's Borrowing from Gower

Published
ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 1 (1988): 123-25.

Description
A proverb in LGW (LGWPF 464-65) may in fact be a (translated) borrowing from a line in Gower's "Vox clamantis." If so, this is clear evidence of the argument raised by John Fisher that Chaucer was "substantially influenced by the older poet."

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.