'As swete as is the roote of lycorys, or any cetewale' Herbal Imagery in Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Nitzsche, Jane Chance.
'As swete as is the roote of lycorys, or any cetewale' Herbal Imagery in Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Newsletter 2, 1 (1980): 6-8.
- Description
- Chaucer uses herbal imagery of licorice and cetewale, breath sweeteners associated with love in MilT, to establish the theme of character dependence on them. Cetewale is aphrodisiac; licorice quenches thirst; love is reduced to the physical and ephemeral.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.