'Canterbury Tales' D 1554: 'Caples Thre'
- Author / Editor
- Eckhardt, Caroline D.
'Canterbury Tales' D 1554: 'Caples Thre'
- Published
- Notes and Queries 218 (1973): 283-84.
- Description
- Provides evidence that the locution "caples thre" (FrT 1554) means "three cart horses" and "preestes thre" (GP 1.164) means "three priests."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- Friar and His Tale
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales