The Cambridge Ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Completed by the Egerton Ms. 2726 (the Haistwell Ms.)

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Chaucer society, 1901 - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 688 pages

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Page 518 - The Friday for to chide, as diden ye? For on a Friday, soothly, slayn was he. Thanne wolde I shewe yow how that I koude pleyne For Chauntecleres drede and for his peyne.
Page 358 - XXIII. Odd Texts of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part I, containing 1. two MS fragments of ' The Parlament of Foules ; ' 2. the two differing versions of ' The Prologue to the Legende of Good Women,' arranged so as to show their differences ; 3.
Page 358 - Brock. 3. A Temporary Preface to the 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, &c.
Page 55 - That whan a man was set on o degree, He letted nat his felawe for to see.
Page 358 - Of the Second Series, the issue for 1874 is, 9. Essays on Chaucer, his Words and Works, Part II.
Page 358 - XXVI. The Wife's, Friar's, and Summoner's Tales, from the Ellesmere MS, with 9 woodcuts of Tale-Tellers. (Part IV.) XXVII. The Wife's, Friar's, Summoner's, Monk's, and Nun's-Priest's Tales, from the Hengwrt MS, with 23 woodcuts of the Tellers of the Tales.
Page 182 - To hir, and to another worthy wyf, And to my nece, which that I loved weel, I wolde han told his conseil every-deel.
Page 129 - And for that day, as in that latitude, It was ten of the clokke, he gan conclude, And sodeynly he plighte his hors aboute. "Lordinges...
Page 15 - That if gold ruste, what shuld iren do ? For if a preest be foule, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust...
Page 358 - MS. (each with woodcuts of fourteen drawings of Tellers 'of Tales in the Ellesmere MS.) XXI. A Parallel-Text edition of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part I :— 'The Dethe of Blaunche the Duchesse^

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