Chaucer's Merchant's Tale, E 1263, 1854 and 2360-65

Author / Editor
Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.

Title
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.