Word Play in the Prologue to the 'Manciple's Tale,' 98: 'T'acord and love and many a wrong apese'
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Emerson,Jr.
Word Play in the Prologue to the 'Manciple's Tale,' 98: 'T'acord and love and many a wrong apese'
- Published
- Chaucer Newsletter 2.2 (1980): 11-12.
- Description
- Argues for a pun on nonce-word "ape-ese." The Cook has drunk "wyn ape." If appease (ad pacem) is merely ape-ease, then clearly wine is no real remedy for the pilgrims' dis-ease ("whan that they were seke").
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.