Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale", 1427-28.
- Author / Editor
- Harrington, David V.
Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale", 1427-28.
- Published
- Notes and Queries 209 (1964): 166-67.
- Description
- Observes differences between January's reference to proverbially "sotile clerkis" (MerT 4.1427) and the Wife of Bath's reference to proverbially "parfyt" ones (WBT 3.44c; perhaps cancelled). The first is anti-clerical; the latter pro-clerical, and perhaps the reason Chaucer's cancelled it in WBT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Manuscripts and Textual Studies