bourne, ten miles further from London. See however Modern Philology 3 : 164-65. "I see wel that ye lerned men in lore Shipman's prol. lines 6, 7. Frag. B2 Can moche good”— This was taken by Bradshaw and Furnivall to mean the Man of Law, whose tale has just ended; Shipley considers that it means Man of Law, Doctor, and Pardoner, and Furnivall, Acad. 1895 II: 296, agrees with him. Skeat III: 418-19 thinks that the Pardoner cannot be meant by this passage. Koch, Chronology p. 59, suggested putting C between B1 and B2, the phrase "lerned men in lore" then referring to Man of Law, Doctor, and Pardoner; but Shipley feels that the "thrifty" just noted makes B2 inseparable from B1, see Mod. Lang. Notes 10: 260 ff. Third Day according to Furnivall. The Pardoner wishes to drink and eat a cake before beginning his tale; according to Furnivall, Temp. Pref. 25-6, this indicates an hour before breakfast; Shipley loc. cit. p. 272 thinks that Furnivall overestimates the point. The Host says to the Clerk, introd. line 4, "This day ne herde I of your tonge a word". Shipley, loc. cit. p. 274, thinks this implies that much of the day has passed. Other critics have not noted the passage. The Wife of Bath is alluded to in the Clerk's Tale, line 1170. Apparently E1 must then follow D. In the Merchant's Tale, lines 441-2, reference is made to the Wife of Bath's discussion of marriage. E must then follow D. Fourth Day according to Furnivall. “I wol not tarien yow for it is pryme". Squire's Tale, line 73. In the Franklin's tale the subject-matter is so closely parallel to the tales of Wife of Bath and of Clerk, discussing marriage and "maistrye" and testing of wives, that we would infer the alliance of all these tales, and the position of D before E and F. In the prologue of the Canon's Yeoman's Tale it is stated that the "lyf of seint Cecyle", or Second Nun's Tale, was just finished; the place Boughton-under-Blee is mentioned, and the Yeoman, who has ridden hard, to overtake the pilgrims, says: sires now in the morwe-tyde Out of your hostelrye I saugh yow ryde”. This hostelry, according to Furnivall, was probably Ospringe. In the prologue to the Parson's Tale it is stated that only this one narrative is now lacking, and that it is four p. m., "but hasteth yow the sonne wol adoun”. The above is Furnivall's time-scheme, according to which the pilgrimage took four, or three and one-half, days. A journey of three days is argued by Tatlock, Publ. Mod. Lang. Ass'n 21:478-486, following Koch, Chronology. It may be remarked that the lapse of a night between the tales of Fragment A and the Man of Law's headlink (Tatlock, loc. cit. p. 482) is not certain. See p. 258 here, note. On the absolute date of the pilgrimage see under Prologue in Section III G below. 3. The Order of the Tales in the MSS: Classification of the MSS. List of MSS of the Canterbury Tales, with the abbreviations by which they are mentioned in this volume. For refs. to the pages where descriptions may be found, see Index at close of work. British Museum codices are described III B (1) below, Bodleian codices in (3), Cambridge University Library in (5), private property in (7). Adds. 5140 Additionals 5140, British Museum. Adds. 25718=Additionals 25718, British Museum. Adds. 35286=Additionals 35286, British Museum. Formerly Ashburnham 125. Arch. Selden, see Selden. Ashb. 124 Ashburnham 124, now (1907) in the hands of Quaritch. Ashb. 126 Ashburnham 126, private property. Ashb. 127 Ashburnham 127, now (1907) in the hands of Quaritch. Barlow Barlow 20, Bodleian Library, Oxford. Bodl. 414 Bodley 414, Bodleian Library, Oxford. Cax. II=the original of Caxton's second edition. Ch. Ch. Christ Church 152, in the Oxford college of that name. Corpus Corpus Christi College, in the Oxford college of that name. Dd=Dd iv, 24, in the University Library, Cambridge. Del. the property of Lord Delamere. Dev. the property of the Duke of Devonshire. Egerton 2726, British Museum. Formerly the Haistwell. Egerton 2863, British Museum. Hodson. Formerly the Norton, then the Egerton 2864, British Museum. Formerly the Ingilby, then the Hodson. Ellesmere the property of the Earl of Ellesmere. Gg=Gg iv, 27 of the University Library, Cambridge. Harley 1758, British Museum. Harley 7333, British Museum. Harley 7335, British Museum. Hatton-Hatton Donat. I, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Hengwrt, private property. Hodson-Ashb. Hodson-Ashburnham-Ashb. 124. Hodson-Hodson 39, private property. Holkham, private property. Ii Ii iii, 26 in the University Library, Cambridge. Lincoln Lincoln Cathedral. Longleat Longleat 257, the property of Lord Bath. MmMm ii, 5 of the University Library, Cambridge. Naples, in the Royal Library, Naples. New-New College, Oxford. Northumberland-the Duke of Northumberland's MS. Paris, in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Petworth, the property of Lord Leconfield. Phillipps 6570, private property. Phillipps 8136, private property. Phillipps 8137, private property. Phillipps 8299, private property.. Phys. in the College of Physicians, London. R 3, 3,—R 3, 15-Trinity College Cambridge, R 3, 3-R 3, 15. Rawl. poet. 141=Rawlinson 141, Bodleian Library, Oxford. Rawl. poet. 149=Rawlinson 149, Bodleian Library, Oxford. Rawl. poet. 223=Rawlinson 223, Bodleian Library, Oxford. Royal 17=Royal 17 D xv, British Museum. Royal 18 Royal 18 C ii, British Museum. Selden Selden B 14, Bodleian Library, Oxford. Sion the Sion College fragment, London. Sloane 1685, British Museum. Sloane 1686, British Museum. Trinity 3 Trinity College Cambridge, R 3, 3 Trinity 49 Trinity College Oxford, 49. The above is the list as usually given, e. g., by Skeat or by Koch, with the addition of three MSS recently acquired by the British Museum, Adds. 35286, Egerton 2863, Egerton 2864. But if the Naples or the Phillips 8299 MS, which contain only one of the Canterbury Tales, is to be included in such a list, there are various other codices containing a Tale or two which should be mentioned here. These are:Ee ii, 15 of the University Library, Cambridge; Harley 1704, Harley 2251, and Harley 2382 of the British Museum. Furthermore, Bernard mentions a copy of Melibeus in a Gresham College, London, manuscript; and one of the Longleat MSS has fragments of the Parson's Tale, according to the Hist. MSS. Comm. Report III, p. 181. Some MSS named by Bernard which I have not been able to identify with existing codices are:-Canby (or Prynne), Clarendon, Coventry School, Gresham College above mentioned, Hodley, Worseley. Inquiry regarding the Canby and Worseley, as also regarding the Chandos, Ely, and Norton MSS used by Urry, was made by Furnivall in N. and Q. 1871 II: 526. For the Norton MS see above under Egerton 2863; for the Coventry School, not a MS of the Canterbury Tales, see Section IV here under the ABC. The Order of the Tales in the MSS. Tyrwhitt was the first editor to give this point consideration, although according to Francis Thynne (Animadversions pp. 68-9) his father, in the 1532 Chaucer, examined the Links carefully to see where the Plowman's Tale should be inserted. Tyrwhitt adopted the order of what he called "the best manuscripts", i. e., the Ellesmere and its allies, making one difference in that he placed the ML endlink as the Shipman's headlink, see Introd. Disc. § xxxi. No discussion of the matter appears in the Chiswick or the 1845 Aldine, both of which follow Tyrwhitt; Wright in 1847-51 printed the Harley 7334 text, the order of which is like the Ellesmere except in the position of the G fragment. His text was adopted by Bell, and by Morris in the revised Aldine, although neither of these editors discussed the question of arrangement. In Notes and Queries 1865 II : 13 was printed a letter from J. Dixon, asking for further light on the subject, and in the same journal for 1868, II : 149, 245, appeared Furnivall's "Groups and Order of the Canterbury Tales"; these results were afterwards printed in tabular form as Trial-Tables, and prefixed to Part I of the Chaucer Society's Six-Text, with a note of emendation by Furnivall. Taken in conjunction with the Specimens of Moveable Prologues printed by the Chaucer Society, these Tables afford clue to the arrangement and linking of Tales in many, though by no means all, of the MSS. Furnivall discussed the matter in detail in his Temporary Preface, noted below, and added a condensed account to Warton-Hazlitt II : 379 ff. Bradshaw, who did not entirely agree with Furnivall, made suggestions in a letter to him of Sept. 21, 1868, see Prothero's Memoir p. 350, and sketched a plan of investigation in his Skeleton of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Later editors have generally followed the conclusions of Furnivall; see references below. A Temporary Preface to the Chaucer Society's Six-Text edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Part I, attempting to show the right Order of the Tales, and the Days and Stages of the Pilgrimage, etc., by F. J. Furnivall, M. A. Chaucer Society, 2d Series, No. 3. 1868. Furnivall decides for the order of fragments as AB1 B2 CDEFGHI. His "Scheme" is reprinted as Appendix C to the revised Aldine Chaucer. The Skeleton of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Henry Bradshaw. Published in Nov. 1871, and included in Bradshaw's Collected Papers, Cambridge, 1889, pp. 102 ff. Written in 1867. Bradshaw emphasized the necessity of regarding the various links or prologues to the separate fragments as the main line of action of the poem; he indicated lines of difference among the MSS, principally in the links, upon the strength of which he suggested MS-groups of three sorts, viz.: 1. "The least correct." Has the Tale of Gamelyn. At the end of B1 the link is retained, and made to introduce the Squire. In E1 there is no concluding stanza to the Tale, the stanzas of the envoy are transposed, and there is no link-stanza. The Merchant has no introductory link, and the link at the end of E' is perverted so as to introduce the Franklin. The endlink of the Squire is perverted so as to introduce the Merchant. Fragment G has the link at the end. The Monk's Tale has the modern instances wedged in; and the Nun's Priest's Tale has the endlink. II. "The most authentic." Has Gamelyn. The link is retained at the end of B, though useless. The Clerk's Tale has the concluding stanza and the right order of stanzas, but not the link-stanza. The Merchant has an introductory link, and the Squire's endlink correctly introduces the Franklin. Fragment G occurs in its right place, and sometimes has, sometimes has not, the endlink. Fragment C has not the spurious link introducing the Shipman. The modern instances of the Monk's Tale are wedged in. III. The order adopted by Tyrwhitt, and seen in the Ellesmere, etc. Agrees in the main with II, but the alterations seem to be the result of some editorial supervision exercised after Chaucer's death. Gamelyn is suppressed. The endlink of B1 is suppressed. The Clerk's Tale has the concluding stanzas in the right order, and usually the endlink. In Merchant and in Squire the links are right. G is put between B2 and H, and the endlink is suppressed. C has not the spurious endlink, and the Monk's modern instances are at the end of his tale. Bradshaw though suggesting to Furnivall (in 1868) that B2 should be lifted up to follow B1, made no definite scheme of the |