Whiting, Bartlett Jere. Chaucer's use of proverbs

General notes

"This book was a section of my doctoral dissertation [Harvard university, 1932]" - p. ix "Chaucer's usage is compared with that of other writers of his time or before, and appendices contain the proverbial material, or references to it, in the fabliaux, the works of Eustache Deschamps, and the French and English works of John Gower." - Pref "Notes": p. [195]-203