5. The meaning of the allusion is not clear; but the story of the
pilgrims and the peas is perhaps suggested by the line following
— “to make lithe [soft] what erst was hard.” St Leonard was the
patron of captives.
5. Corsaint: The “corpus sanctum” — the holy body, or relics,
preserved in the shrine.
7. So, in the Temple of Venus described in The Knight’s Tale,
the Goddess is represented as “naked floating in the large sea”.