"Canterbury Tales" X (I) 424: "The hyndre part of a she-ape in the fulle of the moone."
- Author / Editor
- Biggins, Dennis.
"Canterbury Tales" X (I) 424: "The hyndre part of a she-ape in the fulle of the moone."
- Published
- Medium Aevum 33 (1964): 200-03.
- Description
- Offers evidence from medieval naturalists and bestiaries to clarify that the she-ape simile in ParsT 10.424 means that the "proud dandy . . . is ridiculously like a wretched ape sticking up its bare bottom when the moon is full."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale