'The Summoner's Tale' and Proverbs 21-14

Author / Editor
Rand, Thomas.

Title
'The Summoner's Tale' and Proverbs 21-14

Published
ANQ 17.2 (2004): 18-20.

Description
Read in the context of Proverbs 21-14 ("a gift in secret pacifieth anger; and a reward in the bosom, strong wrath"), Thomas's gift is comic and condemns Friar John.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale.