Note 581 — Chapter VI · ‘Nicknames.’
Reading edition
Raton is still the term in the North. Langland uses it, and in Chaucer the Potecary is asked by a purchaser—
‘That he him would sell
Some poison, that he might his ratouns quell.’
Reading edition
Raton is still the term in the North. Langland uses it, and in Chaucer the Potecary is asked by a purchaser—
‘That he him would sell
Some poison, that he might his ratouns quell.’