Note 36 — Chapter I
Reading edition
The reader will recall Chaucer's account in the Canterbury Tales of the wife of the well-to-do miller of Trumpyngton:
"A wyf he hadde y-comen of noble kyn; She was y-fostred in a nonnerye. There dorste no wight clepen hir but 'Dame;' What for hire kynnrede and hir nortelrie, That she had lerned in the nonnerie." —Reeve's Tale.