'Canterbury Tales' D 1554: 'Caples Thre'

Author / Editor
Eckhardt, Caroline D.

Title
'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