"A Round Tour of Yvoyre" ("The Book of the Duchess", 946).

Author / Editor
Rowland, Beryl.

Title
"A Round Tour of Yvoyre" ("The Book of the Duchess", 946).

Published
Notes and Queries 208 (1963): 9.

Description
Suggests that the description of Blanche's throat as a round ivory tower may "carry on the idea" of the Duchess being referred to as a "fers," a chess piece, found elsewhere in the poem.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess