A One-text Print of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Being the Best Text of Each, Poem in the Parallel Text Edition for Handy Use by Editors Readers

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N. Trübner, 1880 - 148 pages

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Page 250 - Tale, of the Canterbury Tales, in 6 parallel Texts (from the 6 MSS named below), together with Tables, showing the Groups of the Tales, and their varying order in 38 MSS of the Tales, and in 5 old printed editions, and also Specimens from several MSS of the "Moveable Prologues...
Page 244 - Compleyne I, for ye be my lady dere! I am so sory, now that ye be light; For certes, but ye make me hevy chere...
Page 246 - MSS, a print of each MS has been issued separately, following the order of its original.
Page 247 - Society was started by Dr. Furnivall in 1864 for the purpose of bringing the mass of Old English Literature within the reach of the ordinary student, and of wiping away the reproach under which England hud long rested, of having felt little interest in the monuments of her early language and life.
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Page 250 - Tale of Gamelyn, in 6 parallel Texts. (Six-Text, Part II.) The issue for 1871, in the First Series, is, XV. The Man of Law's, Shipman's, and Prioress's Tales, with Chaucer's own Tale of Sir Thopas, in 6 parallel Texts from the MSS above named, and 9 coloured drawings of Tellers of Tales, after the originals in the Ellesmere MS.
Page 12 - But certes, sire, yif that yee Wolde ought discure me youre woo, I wolde, as wys God helpe me soo, Amende hyt, yif I kan or may. Ye mowe preve hyt be assay ; For, by my trouthe, to make yow hool, I wol do al my power hool. And telleth me of your sorwes smerte ; Paraunter hyt may esc youre herte, That semeth ful seke under your syde.
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Page 247 - Series the whole of our unprinted MS. literature ; and in its Extra Series to reprint in careful editions all that is most valuable of printed MSS. and early printed books. The...

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