"Ye, Haselwodes Shaken!"--Pandarus and Divination.

Author / Editor
Gnerro. Mark L.

Title
"Ye, Haselwodes Shaken!"--Pandarus and Divination.

Published
Notes and Queries 207 (1962): 164-65.

Description
Locates the origins of Pandarus's "proverbial expletive" about "haselwodes" (TC 3.890) in the tradition of magical divination by sticks (rhabdomancy), commenting on the "appositeness" of assigning the proverb to the "hard-headed, skeptical Pandarus."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations