Note 27 — Chapter IV · THE EARLIEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION: PETERHOUSE
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The actual expression is, of course, scholares, but it is best to translate the word by the later title of fellows to avoid the erroneous impression which would otherwise be given. That the scholares were occasionally called fellows even in Chaucer’s day may be inferred from his lines—
“Oure corne is stole, men woll us fooles call, Both the warden and our fellowes all.”