OF Chaucer's Minor Poems, BEING THE BEST TEXT OF EACH POEM IN THE PARALLEL-TEXT EDITION, FOR HANDY USE BY EDITORS AND READERS. EDITED BY FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL. LONDON: PUBLISHT FOR THE CHAUCER SOCIETY BY N. TRÜBNER & CO., 57 & 59, LUDGATE HILL. CONTENTS. I. THE DETHE OF BLAUNCHE THE DUCHESSE PAGE 1 CORRECTION. Parallel-Text edition of Chaucer's Minor Poems, p. 423, note 1, lines 13, 14. Whittingham's Chaucer 1822, and the Aldine of 1845, both have the Bukton, with the name in the first line: Singer, vol. iv. p. 239, "My master, Bukton," &c.; Aldine, vol. v. p. 299, 66 "My master Bukton," &c. But both editions leave the title of the poem out of their tables of Contents, and both print it, like the old editions do, without a heading, as a kind of tag to the Dethe of Blaunche or Booke of the Duchesse, from which only a short rule' separates it. Twas this want of the heading which causd my mistake as I turnd over the leaves of the two editions.-F. J. F. |