A New Conjecture for "Book of the Duchess" 1315.

Author / Editor
Weiskott, Eric.

Title
A New Conjecture for "Book of the Duchess" 1315.

Published
Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 12-13

Description
Discusses previous scholarship on line 1315 of BD, and suggests that emending the line to “Gan [hym] homwarde for to ryde" brings it into conformance with the rest of this "briskly tetrametric poem."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
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