Chaucer's Rosary and Donne's Bracelet: Ambiguous Coral.

Author / Editor
Manley, Francis.

Title
Chaucer's Rosary and Donne's Bracelet: Ambiguous Coral.

Published
Modern Language Notes 74 (1959): 385-88.

Description
Traces backgrounds to the coral beads held by the Prioress (GP 1.158-59), both as an amulet against evil and a charm for earthly love, also found in John Donne's "Sonnet. The Token," lines 10-12.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale