Abstract
In the Pardoner’s Tale, a sequence of exclamations beginning ‘O cursed synne of alle cursednesse!’ condemning homicide,gluttony, and so on [895f.] prompts one medieval scribe to write ‘Auctor’ in the margin. In another manuscript a scribe adds ‘Auctor’ next to a paragraph in the Merchant’s Tale proclaiming the fickleness of Chance: ‘O sodeyn hap! o thou Fortune unstable!’ [2057f.].
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© 1987 Alcuin Blamires
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Blamires, A. (1987). Chaucer, Authorship and Truth. In: The Canterbury Tales. The Critics Debate. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18503-0_9
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