The Solemn Doctor, Henry Goethals (1227-1293).
The Solid Doctor, Richard Middleton (_-1304).
The Subtle Doctor, Duns Scotus (1265-1308), or Most Subtle Doctor.
The Thorough Doctor, William Varro (thirteenth century).
The Universal Doctor, Alain de Lille (1114-1203); Thomas Aquinas, (1224-1274).
The Venerable Doctor, William de Champeaux (_-1126).
The Well-founded Doctor, Ægidius Romanus (_-1316).
The Wise Doctor, John Herman Wessel (1409-1489).
The Wonderful Doctor, Roger Bacon (1214-1292).
Doctor's Tale (The), in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, is the Roman story of Virginius given by Livy. This story is told in French in the Roman de la Rose, ii. 74, and by Gower in his Confessio Amantis, vii. It has furnished the subject of a host of tragedies: for example, in French, Mairét (1628); Leclerc (1645); Campestron (1683); Chabenon (1769); Laharpe (1786); Leblanc de Guillet (1786); Guiraud (1827); Latour St. Ybars (1845). In Italian, Alfieri (1784); in German, Lessing (1775); and in English, Knowles, (1829).