| has gloss | eng: There are actually two pseudo-Chaucerian texts called The Plowmans Tale. In the mid-fifteenth century a rhyme royal Plowmans Tale was added to the text of The Canterbury Tales in the Christ Church MS. This tale is actually an orthodox Roman Catholic, possibly anti-Lollard version of a Marian miracle story written by Thomas Hoccleve called Item de Beata Virgine. Someone composed and added a prologue to fit Hoccleves poem into Chaucers narrative frame. This bogus tale did not survive into the printed editions of Chaucer's Works. |