Canterbury Tales: General Prologue, 526; The Wife of Bath's Prologue, 435: "Spiced Conscience."

Author / Editor
Rockwell, K. A.

Title
Canterbury Tales: General Prologue, 526; The Wife of Bath's Prologue, 435: "Spiced Conscience."

Published
Notes and Queries 202 (1957): 84.

Description
Suggests that "spiced conscience" in GP (1.526) means "peppery" moral indignation; "sweet, spiced conscience" in WBP (3.435), a "bland, gentle disposition."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Wifee of Bath and Her Tale