The Parson's Tale : A Newly Discovered Fragment
- Author / Editor
- Youngs, Deborah.
The Parson's Tale : A Newly Discovered Fragment
- Published
- Chaucer Review 34: 207-16, 1999.
- Description
- An entry on a "boke of schrift" found in a commonplace book compiled by Cheshire gentleman Humphrey Newton (1466-1536) contains the section against swearers and flatterers from ParsT (600-21, 626-27). Humphrey perhaps chose this passage for its literary merit, its relevance to his own lifestyle, or his need for "instruction and concern for his soul." Humphrey makes no mention of Chaucer or CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Parson and His Tale.