"My modres gate" and "El Palo del Viejo."

Author / Editor
Steadman, John M.

Title
"My modres gate" and "El Palo del Viejo."

Published
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 323.

Description
Suggests that the "gate-metaphor" of PardT 6.729 derives from a Spanish proverb fused with Maximianus's "Elegy" I.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations