Chaucer's "Troilus," iv, 1585: A Biblical Allusion?

Author / Editor
Baugh, Albert C., and E. T. Donaldson.

Title
Chaucer's "Troilus," iv, 1585: A Biblical Allusion?

Published
Modern Language Notes 76 (1961): 1-5.

Description
Challenges L. G. Evans' suggestion that TC 4.1585 alludes to Matthew 10.39 (MLN, vol. 74), Baugh arguing that the phrasing is the same as in a common proverb, and Donaldson that the emendation underlying Evans' suggestion ("lyf" for "lief") is untenable.

Contributor
Donaldson, E. Talbot.

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