Chaucer's General Prologue, A 163.

Author / Editor
Biggins, D.

Title
Chaucer's General Prologue, A 163.

Published
Notes and Queries 204 (1959): 435-36.

Description
Explicates GP 1.673 (not 1.163, as in title), adding depth to the multiple, generally sexual innuendoes of the "stif burdoun" borne by the Summoner to accompany the Pardoner's song.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale
Pardoner and His Tale
Language and Word Studies