"Don Thyn Hood" in Chaucer's "Troilus."

Author / Editor
Cassidy, Frederic G.

Title
"Don Thyn Hood" in Chaucer's "Troilus."

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 57 (1958): 739-42.

Description
Suggests that "don thyn hood" in TC 3.954 may have the literal meaning of "put on your nightcap" or, more likely, the figurative meaning of "restrain yourself," the latter drawn from the practice of hooding a hawk.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Language and Word Studies