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.弗洛仑特的爱人，（指）乔叟《坎特伯雷故事集》中《巴斯妇故事》所提到的一个寓
言：骑士弗洛仑特遵守诺言娶一个丑陋的老妇人为妻，但在新婚之夜，老妇人一变而成一个年青貌美的少女。
△Shr.1.2.69:“Be she as foul as was Florentius'love.”哪怕她像弗洛仑特的爱人那样丑陋…。 |