THE CANTERBURY TALES.

EDIN BUROR:

PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY,

PAUL'S WORK.

THE

CANTERBURY TALES

OF

CHAUCER.

TO WHICH Are added,

AN ESSAY ON HIS LANGUAGE AND VERSIFICATION,
AND AN INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE, TOGETHER WITH
NOTES AND A GLOSSARY.

BY

THOMAS TYRWHITT, F.R.S.

With Memoir and Critical Dissertation,

BY THE

REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.

IN THREE VOLS.

VOL. I.

EDINBURGH: JAMES NICHOL

LONDON: JAMES NISBET & CO. DUBLIN: W. ROBERTSON.

M.DCCC.LX.

280. p. 96.

(A) An Account of Former Editions of the Canterbury Tales

(B) A List of MSS. Collated, or Consulted, with the Abbreviations

χίν.

by which they are Cited

χχίν.

(c) An Abstract of the Historical Passages of the Life of Chaucer xxvi.

AN ESSAY ON THE LANGUAGE AND VERSIFICATION OF CHAUCER

AN INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES

XXXV.

xcvii.

the Haberdasher, Carpenter, Webbe, Dyer, and Tapiser

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