Symkyn Koude "Turne Coppes": "Reeve's Tale" 3928.

Author / Editor
Pratt, Robert A.

Title
Symkyn Koude "Turne Coppes": "Reeve's Tale" 3928.

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 59 (1960): 208-11.

Description
Adduces an historical account from 1862 concerning a drinking game that involves turning over cups to suggest that "turne coppes" at RvT 1.3928 may indicate Symkyn caroused in similar fashion.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale
Language and Word Studies