Chaucer was a 14th Century Catholic, and I should think it credible that he
wanted to be "oon of hem that at the day of doom shulle be saved," whatever
Whyatt's motivation may have been. But maybe he was just pretending. Maybe
Dante was, too, and St. Augustine, and Matthew Mark Luke and John. And even
Gerard Manley Hopkins. Maybe everyone has always been just like us, or
perhaps just like you. Maybe history will never end because it's never begun.
At 12:04 AM 9/20/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
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>[Recantation]
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>> Look at the last page of your Canterbury Tales.
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>So did lots of others (in the Renaissance at least) -- Sidney "Leave me oh
>love that reacheth but to dust", Greville (halfway through _Caelica_),
>"Farewell sweet boy ...", Wyatt, "(Now) Farewell Love, and all thy laws
>forever ..." [depending on which MS you take].
>
>Pretty much of a trope -- did any of them take it seriously?
>
>I leave it to the classicists among us to carry this backwards from Chaucer
>rather than forwards.
>
>Robin Hamilton
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