Chaucer's 'The Knight's Tale 2681-82' and Juvenal's 'Tenth Satire.'

From: The Explicator | Date: June 22, 1997| Author: Jungman, Robert E. | Copyright information

The lines 'For wommen, as to speken in commune, Thei folwen all the favour of Fortune' in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Knight's Tale' are believed to be a sententious saying that find their literary source in Virgil's 'Aeneid.' However, a closer linguistic source would be Juvenal's 'Tenth Satire' where the words 'sequitur fortunam ut semper' closely mirrors Chaucer's. The only difference between Chaucer and Juvenal's lines is in the subject, for the latter spoke of the 'Roman mob' that constantly ...

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