Chaucer's Summoner: "Wel loved he garleek, oynons, and eek lekes", C.T. I, 634.

Author / Editor
Biggins, D.

Title
Chaucer's Summoner: "Wel loved he garleek, oynons, and eek lekes", C.T. I, 634.

Published
Notes and Queries 209 (1964): 48.

Description
Maintains that the Summoner's fondness for "overheating foods" conveys lechery, adducing evidence from Reginald Pecock's fifteenth-century "The Reule of Crysten Religioun."

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