Chaucer's "Cook's Tale," 4422.

Author / Editor
Edwards, A. S. G.

Title
Chaucer's "Cook's Tale," 4422.

Published
Notes and Queries 262 (2017): 220-21.

Description
Encourages editors to adopt the manuscript variant "his" (rather than "hir") at the end of the Cook's fragment (CkT 1.4422), which would indicate that the wife prostituted herself "not to make her own living, but in order to provide money for her husband."

Chaucer Subjects
Cook and His Tale
Manuscripts and Textual Studies