Chaucer's Summoner: "Wel loved he garleek, oynons, and eek lekes", C.T. I, 634.
- Author / Editor
- Biggins, D.
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