Note 41 — BOOK I.
Reading edition
This was a common phrase in our old writers; so Chaucer, in his prologue to the Cant. Tales, says of the wife of Bath:—
"Her hosen were of fyne scarlet red."
Reading edition
This was a common phrase in our old writers; so Chaucer, in his prologue to the Cant. Tales, says of the wife of Bath:—
"Her hosen were of fyne scarlet red."