Chaucer's "Sëynt Loy": An Anglo-French Pun?
- Author / Editor
- Foster, Brian.
Chaucer's "Sëynt Loy": An Anglo-French Pun?
- Published
- Notes and Queries 213 (1968): 245-46.
- Description
- Argues that in the GP sketch of the Prioress the reference to saint Loy (1.120) is punningly "redolent of permissiveness."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
Language and Word Studies