'Secte' and 'Suit' Again: Chaucer and Langland

Author / Editor
Baird, Joseph L.

Title
'Secte' and 'Suit' Again: Chaucer and Langland

Published
Chaucer Review 6.2 (1971): 117-19.

Description
Cites examples from Middle English literary texts to support reading "secte" as meaning "petition" or legal suit in ClT 4.1171, referring to the Wife of Bath's argument.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Language and Word Studies