Chaucer's Merchant's Tale, E 1263, 1854 and 2360-65
- Author / Editor
- Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.
Chaucer's Merchant's Tale, E 1263, 1854 and 2360-65
- Published
- Explicator 35, iv (1977): 25-26.
- Description
- The botanical-physical sense of May's appraisal of January's sexual "playing" as "nat...worth a bene" (E 1854) indicates that January has not impregnated May. May's expectancy of impregnation by Damian is frustrated when January interrupts intercourse with such a cry "As dooth the mooder whan the child shal dye" (E2365).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.