Chaucer's "Syngeth Placebo" and the "Roman de Fauvel."

Author / Editor
Fleming, John.

Title
Chaucer's "Syngeth Placebo" and the "Roman de Fauvel."

Published
Notes and Queries 210 (1965): 17-18.

Description
Suggests that the French "Somme le Roi" may be the ultimate source of the reference to "Placebo" in SumT 3.2075 and that "Roman de Fauvel" is a "more likely immediate source."

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations