Note 15 — Chapter VII · LATIN POETIC IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES

Tale of the Nun’s Priest, 521 (B 4531). The allusions are to Poetria 326 (Anglia regnorum regina), 375 (O Veneris lacrimosa dies). For the significance of Chaucer’s satire here, see below, Chapter X. D. 3. Chaucer’s use of the contemporary rhetorical fund is discussed in Manly’s “Chaucer and the Rhetoricians,” London, 1927 (British Academy, Warton Lecture on English Poetry XVII, read June, 1926).