The Wife of Bath's 'Sweet Because'
- Author / Editor
- Rigg, A. G.
The Wife of Bath's 'Sweet Because'
- Published
- Notes and Queries 257 (2012): 315-16.
- Description
- Two Anglo-Latin "celibacy poems" use "quoniam" to mean the same thing that it means in WBP, prompting the question, might a "joke have been circulating among thirteenth and fourteenth century clerics, that every "quare" has its 'quoniam'?"
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Language and Word Studies