The Question of "Lusty Malyne."

Author / Editor
Emerson, Katherine T.

Title
The Question of "Lusty Malyne."

Published
Notes and Queries 202 (1957): 277-78.

Description
Argues that Aleyn's "easy conquest" of Malyne in RvT can be attributed to their prior familiarity and to her promiscuity, the latter evident in the "ease" with which she uses the term "lemman."

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale
Language and Word Studies