Chaucer's Merchant: No Debts?

Author / Editor
Stillwell, Gardiner.

Title
Chaucer's Merchant: No Debts?

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 57 (1958): 192-96.

Description
Examines the syntax, rhetoric, and emphases of GP 1.280 in comparison with similar locutions elsewhere in Chaucer (especially ShT) to argue that it means, emphatically, " If he [the Merchant] was in debt, the spectator would certainly never know it!"

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale
Shipman and His Tale
Style and Versification
Language and Word Studies