ABSTRACT
Before she is cast out of Walter's manor to "make room" for his new "wife," Griselda turns to her husband and says, "'Naked out of my fadres hous... / I cam, and naked moot I turne agayne.'"1 Critics of Chaucer's Clerk's Tale highlight this crystallization of the implicit analogy between Griselda and Job, whose words Griselda echoes: "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither."2 One striking revision of Job's words effected by Griselda's lines, however, is largely unnoticed: the displacement of the "mother's womb" by the "father's house."
