Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women', Lines 2501-3
- Author / Editor
- Cowen, J.M.
Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women', Lines 2501-3
- Published
- Notes and Queries 229 (1984): 298-301.
- Description
- The wording of these lines closely resembles the phraseology found in an Italian translation of Ovid's "Heroides." The line "Youre anker which ye in oure haven leyde" (line 2501) may be a sexual pun. Treats Boccaccio's "De genealogia deorum" as source.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.