A Chaucerian Crux

Author / Editor
Frost, William.

Title
A Chaucerian Crux

Published
Yale Rreview 66 (1977): 551-61.

Description
In TC 5.543, the use of the participle "queynt" (quenched) may have been meant by Chaucer as a pun on the noun "queynt" (pudendum). Although the pun may have been intentional, it is irrelevant to the passage in which it appears, syntactically awkward, and involves the use of a word which had too many meanings to suggest an obscene pun to most readers.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.