'The Reeve's Tale' and 'Gombert Again'

Author / Editor
Pearcy, Roy J.

Title
'The Reeve's Tale' and 'Gombert Again'

Published
American Notes and Queries 23 (1985): 64-68.

Description
Only one analogue, Jean Bodel's "Gombert et les deus clers," includes after the cradle story a "moralitas" against the danger of harboring strangers (in Bodel, friars). The moral of RvT, spoken by the Cook (CkP 4331), recalls the passage.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale.