Six Chaucer Notes
- Author / Editor
- Whitbread, L.
Six Chaucer Notes
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 79 (1978): 41-43.
- Description
- CT I (A), 5 equals Catullus Car. XLVI 1-3, 7-11. "Pynce at" CT I (A), 326 is not a pun but an idiom. Mars is rightly red, as is the Wife; the number of her husbands evokes John 4:17-18. The Miller's gold thumb refers to the method of his theft, not his rarity. The Summoner's fiery face puns on "fieri facies," a legal tag; the same pun appears in Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller," The dice throw in MkT VII (B2), 2661 evokes Alexander's grave-sized empire after death.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Monk and His Tale.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.