Some Word-Play in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale.

Author / Editor
Eliason, Norman E.

Title
Some Word-Play in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale.

Published
Modern Language Notes 71.3 (1956): 162-64.

Description
Suggests that the pun on "hooly" in RvT 1.3983-84 as "holy" and wholly" encourages us to also see further word-play in the tale: "panne" as "penny" at 1.3944 and "allye" as "alloy" at 1.3945, both related to recognizing the connotations of "bras" as counterfeit at 1.3944. Adduces brass as alloy and counterfeit in ClT 4.1167-69

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Reeve and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale