| 词条 | Bicorn and Chichevache |
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Bicorn and Chichevache are fabulous beasts that appear in European satirical works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Bicorn is a creature—often described as a part-panther, part-cow creature with a human-like face[1]—that devours kind-hearted and devoted husbands and (because of their abundance) is plump and well fed. Chichevache, on the other hand, devours obedient wives and (because of their scarcity) is thin and starving. ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer mentions Chichevache in the envoy of the Clerk's Tale in his Canterbury Tales: {{quote|O noble wyves, ful of heigh prudence, Lat noon humylitee youre tonge naille, Ne lat no clerk have cause or diligence To write of yow a storie of swich mervaille As of Grisildis pacient and kynde, Lest Chichevache yow swelwe in hire entraille! (ll. 1183–1188)[2] Chaucer may have borrowed the French term chichifache ("thin face") and put it with vache ("cow") to make the similar term chichevache ("thin or meagre cow").[3] D. Laing Purves notes that "The origin of the fable was French; but Lydgate has a ballad on the subject. 'Chichevache' literally means 'niggardly' or 'greedy cow.{{'-}}"[4] LydgateIn the early fifteenth century John Lydgate wrote "Bycorne and Chychevache", a 133-line poem in 7-line stanzas, probably from a French original. Written "at the request of a worthy citizen of London" to accompany a tapestry or painted wall-hanging, the poem is accompanied by instructions for pictorial representations. Lydgate describes the two beasts as husband and wife.[5] In popular culture
References1. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.mythicalcreatureslist.com/mythical-creature/Bicorne |title=Bicorne |website=Mythical Creatures List |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613110701/http://mythicalcreatureslist.com:80/mythical-creature/Bicorne |archive-date=2017-06-13}} 2. ^{{cite book |editor1-last=Robinson|editor1-first=F. N. |editor1-link=Fred Norris Robinson |date=1957 |title=The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer |edition=2nd |location=Boston |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |page=114}} 3. ^{{Cite web |url=http://home.swipnet.se/~w-48250/mythology/c/chichevache.html |title=Chichevache |last= Segolsson |first=Pär-Erik |website=The Heathen's Place |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610102805/http://home.swipnet.se/~w-48250/mythology/c/chichevache.html |archive-date=2016-06-10}} 4. ^{{Gutenberg|no = 2383|name = The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems|bullet=none}} 5. ^{{cite book |editor1-last=Hammond |editor1-first=Eleanor Prescott |date=1969 |orig-year=Originally published by Duke University Press, 1927|title=English Verse Between Chaucer and Surrey |url=https://archive.org/stream/englishversebetw00hamm#page/113/mode/1up |location=New York |publisher=Octagon |pages=113–118}}
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