The "Greyn" in the "Prioress's Tale."

Author / Editor
Bratcher, James T.

Title
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