Chaucer's "The Merchant's Tale," 2257-2261.

Author / Editor
Main, William W.

Title
Chaucer's "The Merchant's Tale," 2257-2261.

Published
Explicator 14 (1955): item 13.

Description
Suggests that "double meaning seems deliberate" in a pun on "lecher" and "healer" in Pluto's use of "lechour" (MerT 4.2257) when he pledges to restore January's eyesight.

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