Seeing through colored glassess From: Western Folklore | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright California Folklore Society Winter 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

In the most literal sense, of course, glasses serve to correct distortions of physical eyesight. On the other hand, badly made or wrongly prescribed glasses will cause their own distortions. The notion that metaphorical glasses can affect an individual's perception or outlook in ways beyond the o cular is quite old in the English language. For example, the crone in Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale" (c1390) utters this paraphrase of the proverb "A friend in need is a friend indeed": "Poverte [poverty] a spectacle is, as thynketh me, / Thurgh which he may his verray [true] freendes se" (Chaucer ...

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