Note 30 — THE WIFE OF BATH.
Reading edition
Pope has omitted a stroke of humour; for in the original, she naturally mistakes the rank and age of St. Jerome.
And eke there was a clerk sometime in Rome A cardinal, that highten St. Jerome.—Warton.
Reading edition
Pope has omitted a stroke of humour; for in the original, she naturally mistakes the rank and age of St. Jerome.
And eke there was a clerk sometime in Rome A cardinal, that highten St. Jerome.—Warton.