Now (This), Now (That) and BD 646

Author / Editor
Brosnahan, Leger.

Title
Now (This), Now (That) and BD 646

Published
Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 11-18.

Description
Explains the imagery of BD 646 as a literary application of a commonplace proverb; the line is drawn from Machaut and implies the instability of Fortune.

Alternative Title
Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess