A Temporary Preface to the Six-text Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Part 1, Attempting to Show the True Order of the Tales, and the Days and Stages of the Pilgrimage |
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... Host with the other characters of the Tales , or these others ' chats with one another , which intervene be- tween the Tales , and in which Chaucer has mainly told the incidents of the journey , carried on the action of the story ( Tyrw ...
... Host with the other characters of the Tales , or these others ' chats with one another , which intervene be- tween the Tales , and in which Chaucer has mainly told the incidents of the journey , carried on the action of the story ( Tyrw ...
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... Host say ( 1 ) of himself to the Monk , about the latter's awfully heavy Tregedis or Tale ; and ( 2 ) of the drunken Cook : ( 1 ) For sicurly , ner gingling of the bellis 16280 That on your bridil hong on every syde , [ See 1. 169-70 ] ...
... Host say ( 1 ) of himself to the Monk , about the latter's awfully heavy Tregedis or Tale ; and ( 2 ) of the drunken Cook : ( 1 ) For sicurly , ner gingling of the bellis 16280 That on your bridil hong on every syde , [ See 1. 169-70 ] ...
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... Host starts the Pilgrims and the Tales : A morwe whan the day bigan to sprynge , Up roos oure ost , and was oure althur cok And gaderud us togider alle in a flok , And forth we riden 2 a litel more than paas , 827 1 Following Tyrwhitt ...
... Host starts the Pilgrims and the Tales : A morwe whan the day bigan to sprynge , Up roos oure ost , and was oure althur cok And gaderud us togider alle in a flok , And forth we riden 2 a litel more than paas , 827 1 Following Tyrwhitt ...
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... Host says to the Reeve , 1. 3903-6 , Sey forth thi tale , and tarye nat the tyme ; Lo , heer is Depford , 1 and it is passed prime 2 ; Lo , Grenewich , ther many a schrewe is inne : It were al tyme thi tale to bygynne . Deptford is ...
... Host says to the Reeve , 1. 3903-6 , Sey forth thi tale , and tarye nat the tyme ; Lo , heer is Depford , 1 and it is passed prime 2 ; Lo , Grenewich , ther many a schrewe is inne : It were al tyme thi tale to bygynne . Deptford is ...
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... Host- stanza inserted . Second Nonne and Chanons Yeman shunted down late . Modern instances in Monks Tale , at the end . " ( Harl . 7334 is Text B . ) - H . Bradshaw . 2 In those MSS which cut the Sompnour's Tale short at 1. 7740 Wright ...
... Host- stanza inserted . Second Nonne and Chanons Yeman shunted down late . Modern instances in Monks Tale , at the end . " ( Harl . 7334 is Text B . ) - H . Bradshaw . 2 In those MSS which cut the Sompnour's Tale short at 1. 7740 Wright ...
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