Chaucer's 'Com pa me': A Famous Crux Reexamined
- Author / Editor
- Nicholson, Lewis E.
Chaucer's 'Com pa me': A Famous Crux Reexamined
- Published
- English Language Notes 19 (1981): 98-102.
- Description
- Despite recent scholarship of MilT that equates Alison's "pa" (line 3709) with the Wife of Bath's "ba" (WBT, line 433), the two words should be distinguished. "Pa" seems to be a shortening of "pax," the liturgical embrace of Christian love. In light of the ironic pattern of allusion to the Canticle "pa" is especially fitting.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.