Jim,
Perhaps he wants to hide in it. Isn't there an episode in an Irish saint's
life (Columba's perhaps)in which a devil is falls out of a milk can when it
is knocked over?
Bernadette Filotas
At 11:54 AM 4/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I've provoked a question on the Chaucerlist that I hope some of you
>might be able to answer. At the end of The Friar's Tale, a devil
>carries off a wicked Summoner, but also a cooking pan that an old
>woman has consigned to him. The question is: what can he possibly
>want with a pan? It strikes me as similar to a passage in Dr. Faustus,
>where Mephastophilis is anxious to get extra money out of a horse-
>trader. Again, what does he want with money? Is it mindless
>cupiditas?
>
>Regards,
>Jim Kerbaugh
>
>
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