Dunbar's "Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo" 185-87 and Chaucer's "Parson's Tale."

Author / Editor
Bawcutt, Priscilla.

Title
Dunbar's "Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo" 185-87 and Chaucer's "Parson's Tale."

Published
Notes and Queries 209 (1964): 332-33.

Description
Observes that William Dunbar ridicules sexual impotence by means of the image of a dog ineffectively lifting its leg and maintains that the image and its implications derive from the "striking (and probably original)" use in ParsT 10.858,

Chaucer Subjects
Parson and His Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion