The Devil's 'Privetee'

Author / Editor
Baird, Joseph L.

Title
The Devil's 'Privetee'

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 70 (1969): 104-06.

Description
Suggests that in the drama of CT the Summoner's idea of friars residing in Satan's arse (SumP) was prompted by the demon's promise to the summoner in FrT that he would know the devil's "privetee" (3.1637), an echo of the Miller's claim about "Goddes pryvetee" (MilP 1.3164).

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale
Friar and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale