'General Prologue' 526 : 'A Spiced Conscience'

Author / Editor
Hirsh, John C.

Title
'General Prologue' 526 : 'A Spiced Conscience'

Published
Chaucer Review 28 (1994): 414-17.

Description
Although often glossed erroneously as "hypocritical," the word "spiced," as applied to the Parson's conscience, indicates an individual whose soul is touched suddenly and profoundly by religion, "as spices might do the palate."

Chaucer Subjects
Parson and His Tale.