Chaucer's Prioress: Et Nos Cedamus Amori

Author / Editor
McGowan, Joseph P.

Title
Chaucer's Prioress: Et Nos Cedamus Amori

Published
Chaucer Review 38 : 199-202, 2003.

Description
The Prioress's ambiguous motto--"love conquers all"--is only half of a quotation from Virgil. The remainder--"and we must give in to it"--does not lessen the equivocal nature of the portrait.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.