'Wades boot': 'Canterbury Tales' E.1424 and1684
- Author / Editor
- Ferris, Sumner J.
'Wades boot': 'Canterbury Tales' E.1424 and1684
- Published
- American Notes and Queries 9.5 (1971): 71-72.
- Description
- Identifies a "possible pun" on the name of the mythological Wade in MerT 5.1684 ("waden"), arguing that, followed by a reference to the Wife of Bath, the pun recalls January's allusion to Wade in 5.1424 and deepens Justinus's warning against marriage.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale