Note 36 — JANUARY AND MAY:
Reading edition
A circumstance is added by Chaucer which brings vividly before the reader the advanced age of the knight:
The slacke skin about his necke shaketh While that he sung.
Reading edition
A circumstance is added by Chaucer which brings vividly before the reader the advanced age of the knight:
The slacke skin about his necke shaketh While that he sung.