Chaucer's General Prologue, 133-136
- Author / Editor
- Bowles, Patrick.
Chaucer's General Prologue, 133-136
- Published
- Explicator 35.3 (1977): 5-6.
- Description
- That the passage describing the Prioress's habit of wiping her mouth clean (GP, 133-36) has been misunderstood is shown in the translations by all modern translators, except Coghill, of "hir" in the phrase "hir coppe: (133) as "her" when it should be rendered as either "the" or "their."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.