Constance's Covering Her Child's Eyes in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale' 837f

Author / Editor
Brunt, Andrew

Title
Constance's Covering Her Child's Eyes in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale' 837f

Published
Notes and Queries 214 (1969): 87-88.

Description
Regards the detail of covering the child's eyes in MLT 2.840-41 as a "homely touch" of pathos, perhaps drawn from child-care advice found in Bartholomaeus Anglicus, "De Proprietatibus Rerum."

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations