Florentius’ love:i.e. an allusion to the fairy talewhich appears in Chaucer's “Tale of the Wife ofBath” from“The Canterbury Tales”： Florent. aknight. keeps his promise to marry an old hag if shesolves the riddle he must answer. On the wedding-night she becomes a young beautiful girl.弗洛侖特的愛人，（指）喬叟《坎特伯雷故事集》中《巴斯婦故事》所提到的一個(gè)寓
言：騎士弗洛侖特遵守諾言娶一個(gè)丑陋的老婦人為妻，但在新婚之夜，老婦人一變而成一個(gè)年青貌美的少女。
△Shr.1.2.69:“Be she as foul as was Florentius'love.”哪怕她像弗洛侖特的愛人那樣丑陋…。 |