'Of prikyng and of huntyng for the hare': General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, I 191
- Author / Editor
- Scott-Macnab, David.
'Of prikyng and of huntyng for the hare': General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, I 191
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 104 (2005): 373-85.
- Description
- As used to describe the Monk in GP, the term pricking should not be understood in a sexual sense; review of sources, the OED, and the MED indicates that the term means "hard galloping."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.