Lines 880-886 in Chaucer's 'Legend of Thisbe' in the 'Legend of Good Women'

Author / Editor
Wright, Constance S.

Title
Lines 880-886 in Chaucer's 'Legend of Thisbe' in the 'Legend of Good Women'

Published
American Notes and Queries 24 (1986): 68-69.

Description
A new text offered for these lines returns to the manuscript reading of "he" for Robinson's "she" in line 882, and with different punctuation. The new text resembles more closely the lines of Ovid that Chaucer is paraphrasing.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.