I don’t know who to credit for this splendidly perplexed horse!

Oh, dear, sometimes typos are inadvertently funny. I’ve just been looking through a serious book on the history of English literature (I won’t identify it further, because it wouldn’t be fair – the work is serious). Anyway, we come to Chaucer‘s, um, Horse of Fame.

Yes, you read it correctly. Horse, not House! 😸


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  1. […] then in John Gardner’s book The Life and Times of Chaucer I came upon a reference to “the white-faced lily-white boy, a terrifying pagan […]

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