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Chaucer's Puns: A Supplementary List

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Paull F. Baum
Paull F. Baum*
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Duke University
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Notes, Documents, and Critical Comment
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PMLA , Volume 73 , Issue 1 , March 1958 , pp. 167 - 170
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1958

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1 Mrs. Hornstein sent in so many good ones that I venture on relegation for a few which strike me as dubious:

Proud Bayard says to himself that he is but an hors and Chaucer adds So ferde it by Troilus (i.223, 225). This is “unlikely” but would make a bilingual pun if Chaucer knew German.

The Host's cardynacle (C 313) is a blend of cardiacle and cardinal, but not quite a pun.

The wikked nest was werker of this nede (B 3576). Nede, says Mrs. Hornstein, the inevitability of Fortune, “may possibly be connected with naddre, nedre, i.e., the adder which was in the nest.” Anyway, one should probably print Wikked Nest to signal the certain pun on Mauny.