The "Greyn" in the "Prioress's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Bratcher, James T.
The "Greyn" in the "Prioress's Tale."
- Published
- Notes and Queries 208 (1963): 444-45.
- Description
- Suggests that the "greyn" placed on the clergeon's tongue in PrT 7.662 is, ironically, a "breath sweetener," one of several satiric details observed in the Tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
Language and Word Studies