While it's a bit silly to go hunting for contradictions in a work infamous for tonal inconsistencies, the line, "But nevertheless, our author tells us, that Cupid, who is the god of Love, as the prayer of his mother on high had taken on the likeness of the child, to enamor this noble queen of Aeneas. (But as to that text, be it as it may, I pay no attention to it.)" (11) still leapt out at me. The other instance of god infusion (for lack of better phrase) we encountered was in Ceyx and Alcyone, a moment that seemed emblematic of Chaucer's theory of personality. I might be making too much of it, but Chaucer's choice to have the Legend of Good Women's narrator voice skepticism seems an odd move indeed.

The other ways in which Chaucer animates the narrator make more sense-- for instance, his constant fastforwarding is a comic touch that punctures any sense of the epic. But I'm not sure quite what to make of this. Narrator and author are, of course, not necessarily the same being, but this casual parenthetical remark does seem to undermine Chaucer's reliance on tropes of mimicry.