Chauntecleer's "Venymous" Cathartics.
- Author / Editor
- Grennen, Joseph E.
Chauntecleer's "Venymous" Cathartics.
- Published
- Notes and Queries 208 (1963): 286-87.
- Description
- Observes that Chauntecleer's description of laxatives as "venymous" [var. "venymes"] in NPT 7.3155 parallels a similar connection in Roger Bacon, and suggests that Chaucer's use carries "antifeminist irony."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations