Chaucer's "Sëynt Loy": An Anglo-French Pun?

Author / Editor
Foster, Brian.

Title
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