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LUCIA, LUCYE. Lucilla gave her husband a dose of poison, mistaking it for a love potion. Walter Map tells the story in Dissuasio Valerii ad Rufinum ne uxorem ducat, IV.3 (c. 1180-1183).

Jankyn reads the story to Alys from "Valerie and Theofraste," WBP 752-756. [Alisoun2: Jankyn2: Valerie]

Lucia appears initially, WBP 752, and Lucye occurs in final rhyming position, WBP 747.

W. Map, De nugis curialium: Courtiers Trifles, ed. and trans. M.R. James, rev. C.N.L. Brook and R.A.B. Mynors, 304-305.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
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