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CESAR4. Cesar is used as the name of the ruler in LGW F 358-360, LGW G 333-336. Envy is the laundress of his court and does not leave his house. Chaucer cites Dante (Inf XIII.64) as the source for this line; Dante says that Envy is the meretrice or whore.
Dante, Divine Comedy, ed. and trans. C.S. Singleton, I.1: 132-133.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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