Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

C 254-276.

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A remarkable coincidence with the language of St. Paul in 1 Tim. vi. 10.

[130]

But this passage still more resembles Jerome against Jovinian; see note to the line.

[131]

Cf. Lounsbury, Studies in Chaucer, ii. 292.

[132]

I.e. the first edition of Gower's poem certainly preceded the Wife's Tale, though the second edition did not appear till 1393.

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