4--i. 482, 483, v. 358; m. 5--i. 552;
De Musica, iii. 260, v. 256.
_And see_ i. 78, 79; ii. i--xlviii, 1-151.
Bradwardine, Thomas (14th century),
De Causa Dei, v. 255.
*Caecilius Balbus,
Sententiae, v. 218.
*Cassiod orus (obiit A.D. 575),
Variarum lib. i. 4--v. 217, 221;
lib. i. 17--v. 215;
lib. i. 30--v. 218;
lib. ix. 13--v. 219;
lib. x. 18--v. 210.
Cato, Dionysius (4th century),
De Moribus, Distichorum lib. i. 2--v. 220;
lib. i. 3--v. 443;
lib. i. 12--v. 442, 443;
lib. i. 17--v. 420;
lib. i. 38--v. 388, 466;
lib. ii. 32--v. 252;
lib. iii. 6--v. 210;
lib. iii. 15--v. 211;
lib. iii. 22--v. 220;
lib. iii. 25--v. 356;
lib. iv. 14--v. 213;
lib. iv. 16--v. 220;
lib. iv. 39--v. 218.
Cato, Dionysius, supplement to, entitled Facetus, v. 98.
*Catullus (as quoted by Boethius), ii. 437.
Charlemagne, Romances of, i. 491, v. 239, 255.
*Chrysippus, v. 309.
*Chrysostom, St. (A.D. 347--407), v. 212, 449.
Cicero, M. Tullius;
De Amicitia (xiii)--i. 439, iii. 352, v. 209;
De Divinatione (i. 27)--v. 253;
(ii. 60)--ii. 457;
De Officiis (i. 9)--v. 211;
(i. 21)--v. 215;
(i. 25)--v. 224;
(i. 26)--v. 210;
(ii. 5, 7)--v. 210, 215;
(ii. 15)--v. 221;
(iii. 5)--v. 220;
De Oratore (ii. 69)--v. 312;
De Senectute (vi. 17)--v. 209;
Disputationes Tusculanae (iii. 30)--v. 209;
Somnium Scipionis, i. 505, 506, 508, ii. 434.
_And see_ i. 558.
Claudian (4th century),
De Raptu Proserpinae, v. 364, 367;
the same (i. 77)--v. 70;
the same (ii. 109)--i. 512;
In Sextum Consulatum Honorii Augusti Praefatio, i. 509.
Cf. iii. 252.
Coincy, Gautier de, iii. 422; v. 491.
*Constantinus Afer (11th century), v. 41, 42, 362.
*Corinnus, i. 531.
*Damasus I (Pope, A.D. 304-384), v. 469.
Dante, Divina Commedia;
_Inferno_ (i. 83)--i. 509;
(ii. 1)--i. 508;
(ii. 7)--iii. 254;
(ii. 122)--iii. 255;
(iii. 1)--i. 510;
(iii. 10)--iii. 249;
(iii. 19)--i. 511;
(iii. 55)--iii. 285;
(iii. 112)--ii. 486;
(v. 121)--ii. 429;
(xii. 22)--ii. 487;
(xiii. 64)--iii. 304;
(xiv)--iii. 253;
(xvi. 1)--iii. 279;
(xxxiii)--v. 241:
_Purgatorio_ (i. 1)--ii. 468;
(i. 20)--v. 71;
(ii. 17)--iii. 253;
(vii. 121)--v. 319;
(ix. 28)--iii. 254;
(xii. 20)--i. 536;
(xviii. 28)--iii. 259;
(xix. 4)--vi. 402:
_Paradiso_ (i. 1)--iii. 247;
(i. 13)--iii. 266;
(i. 20)--iii. 269;
(xiv. 28)--ii. 505;
(xxii. 19)--iii. 262;
(xxii. 128)--iii. 261;
(xxxiii. 1)--v. 403, 404;
(xxxiii. 14)--ii. 481;
(xxxiii. 16)--v. 175.
Cf. vol. i. p. 24; and vol. iii. pp. vii, viii.
*Dares Phrygius, i. 489, 490, iii. 277, v. 254;
_and see_ ii. lxi, lxii, lxiv.
*Decretals, v. 212, 223;
Decretum Gratiani, v. 216.
Deguileville, G. de (died about 1360),
P[`e]lerinage de la Vie Humaine, i. 452; cf. i. 59, 60.
Deschamps, Eustace; Ballades, i. 563, 564;
_and see_ i. lvii.
*Dictys Cretensis, i. 490, iii. 277;
_and see_ ii. lxi-lxiv.
*Digesta,
(xlv. 1. 26)--v. 211;
(l. 17. 35)--v. 223;
(l. 17. 36)--v. 219.
*Dioscorides (2nd century), v. 41.
*Ebrardus Bituniensis, Graecismus, v. 208.
Epistola Valerii; _see_ Map.
*Eternal Gospel, the, i. 447, 448. (Alluded to in Rom. Rose, Fragment C.)
Euclid (book i. prop. 5 and prop. 47), ii. 480.
*Euripides,
Andromache, ii. 439, 440.
Florus, L. Annaeus (2nd century),
Epitome de Gest['i]s Romanorum, iii. 312, 313, 314;
_and see_ iii. xxxvii.
French Song quoted, i. 544.
Froissart,
Le Ditti['e] de la flour de la Margherite, ii. xxxi-ii;
(copies Chaucer), i. 462, 468.
*Fulgentius,
Mythologiarum lib. i. 27-v. 355.
*Galen, Claudius (2nd century), i. 477; v. 42.
*Gatisden, John (of Oxford, 14th century), v. 41, 42.
Geoffrey of Monmouth (12th century), iii. 278.
Gesta Romanorum, i. 520, v. 312, 338, 361, 441.
*Gilbertin, _or_ Gilbertus Anglicus (13th century) v. 41.
Graunson, Oton de (died 1397),
Three Balades, i. 86, 87;
which are printed in full, i. 400-4.
*Gregory, St., Pope, (554-604),
De Cura Pastorali, v. 455;
Homiliae in Evangelia, v. 458;
In Septem Psalmos, v. 448;
Moralia, v. 452, 456, 469, 470, 474.
Guido delle Colonne (13th century),
Historia Troiae (written in 1287),
i. 489, 490, 491;
ii. 462, 493, 499, 500, 503, 504;
iii. 278, 324-5, 328-330;
v. 2, 233;
_and_ ii. liv-lxii.
Guillaume de Lorris (13th century), i. 16-18, 94-164.
_See_ Roman.
*Guiot de Provins (13th century),
Bible, i. 441. (Quoted in Fragment B of the Romaunt of the Rose).
*Haly (11th century), v. 41, 42.
Hermes Trismegistus,
Aphorismi, v. 88, 306;
and see 432.
*Herodotus, v. 312.
*Hippocrates (died about 357 B.C.),
i. 477, 505; v. 42.
*Homer,
Iliad (iii. 277)--ii. 455;
(xii. 17)--ii. 452;
(xxiv. 527)--ii. 428, v. 295.
*Horace,
Epistolae (i. 6. 37)--v. 219;
(i. 10. 24)--v. 439;
(i. 18. 71)--v. 443;
Ars Poetica, ii. 468, 472, v. 439.
Hyginus,
Fabulae, i. 464, iii. 333, 334.
Innocent III, Pope, (1161-1216),
De Contemptu Mundi, _or_ De Miseria Conditionis Humanae, v. 141, 142,
154, 160, 161, 165, 207, 219, 220, 228.
*Isidore, St., of Seville (570-636),
Etymologiae, v. 462;
Sententiae, v. 448.
Jacobus de Voragine, _or_ Jacobus Januensis (end of 13th century),
Legenda Aurea, v. 254, 401;
_and see_ iii. 486-8.
Jean de Meun (about 1250-1318),
Les Remonstrances de Nature, v. 42, 424;
Testament, v. 22, 203, 258;
Le Livre de Melibee, iii. 426, v. 201;
_and see_ Roman de la Rose.
Jehan de Vignay (end of 13th century),
Translation of the Legenda Aurea, v. 401, 402.
Jerome, St. (345-420), v. 450, 451, 453, 466;
Treatise against Jovinian, i. 541, 545; iii. 299, 302; v. 278, 279,
292-6, 301, 303, 311, 312, 395-9, 439, 470-1.
*Johannes Damascenus (9th century), iv. 41.
John of Salisbury (bp. of Chartres, 1110-1180),
Policraticus, (i. 5)--v. 282, 283;
(viii. 6)--i. 541, v. 279.
*Josephus, Flavius (1st century), iii. 276.
*Justinian,
Codex, i. 445, v. 215.
*Juvenal,
Satire x, ii. 432, 486; v. 321. (Probably taken at second-hand.)
Lancelot de Lake, Romance of, v. 255 [l. 4402], 381 [l. 287].
Lapidaire (a French translation of Marbodus, De Gemmis),
iii. 274.
Legenda Aurea; _see_ Jacobus de Voragine.
*Livy,
Annales (i. 57)--iii. 330;
(iii)--v. 260. (Almost certainly quoted at second-hand; see iii. 330,
435.)
*Lollius, ii. 464, 503; iii. 277, 278.
Lorens, Fr[`e]re, _or_ Laurentius Gallus (13th century),
La Somme des Vices et des Vertus (written A.D. 1279), v. 447;
_and see_ iii. 502, v. xxviii.
Lucan,
Pharsalia (i. 128)--ii. 452;
(iii. 79)--v. 153;
(iv. 590)--ii. 454; cf. v. 245.
Machault, Guillaume de (14th century),
Dit du Lion, i. 486, v. 475;
Dit Du Vergier, i. 483;
La Fontaine Amoureuse, i. 467, 469, 483;
Rem[`e]de de Fortune, i. 479, 482, 484-5, 488;
Roi de Behaigne, i. 494;
Roi de Navarre, iii. 254.
Also the Balade mentioned in i. 88, 565.
Macrobius (4th century),
Commentarius in Somnium Scipionis, i. 417, 498, 505-9; iii. 246.
Map, Walter (12th century),
Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum, iii. 302; v. 308, 309, 311, 312, 358.
*Marbodus (_or_ Marboeuf, 12th century),
De Gemmis _or_ Lapidarius, iii. 274.
Martianus Capella (5th century),
De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, v. 360.
*Martinus Dumiensis,
De Moribus, iv. 209, 218, 222, 223;
De Virtutibus Cardinalibus, v. 209;
Formula Honestae Vitae, v. 207.
Maximian (6th century),
Elegia 1--v. 287, 288.
*M['e]nagier de Paris (alluded to), v. 201.
Messahala (8th century),
Compositio et Operatio Astrolabii, iii. lxx.
Nigellus Wireker (12th century),
Burnellus (_or_ Speculum Stultorum), v. 256.
Octovian, Romance of, i. 473.
*Origen,
Homily on Mary Magdalen (a spurious piece), iii. 308.
Ovid,
Ars Amatoria (i. 229, 243)--v. 262;
(i. 163)--ii. 471;
(i. 515)--i. 432;
(i. 595)--i. 432;
(i. 729)--i. 433;
(ii. 107)--ii. 469;
(ii. 251)--i. 433;
(ii. 357)--i. 433;
(iii. 62)--v. 134;
Amores (i. 8. 104)--v. 216;
(ii. 4. 10)--ii. 487;
Epistolae ex Ponto, (ii. 9. 11)--i. 434;
(iv. 10. 5)--v. 389;
Fasti (i)--ii. 454;
(i. 415)--i. 513;
(ii. 153)--v. 83;
(ii. 721)--iii. 330, 331, 332, 333;
Heroides, v. 137;
(Her. i. 12)--ii. 494;
(ii.)--iii. 251, 252, 345;
(iii. 1)--iii. 252;
(iii. 3)--ii. 472;
(v)--ii. 465;
(vi)--iii. 328;
(vi. 50)--iii. 326;
(vii)--iii. 251, 324;
(ix)--ii. 454, iii. 252, v. 233;
(x)--iii. 252, 339;
(xii)--iii. 252, 330;
(xiv)--iii. 346;
(xvi. 288)--v. 298;
Metamorphoses (i. 138)--i. 541;
(i. 438)--v. 439;
(i. 450)--v. 83;
(i. 468)--513;
(i. 566)--ii. 477;
(ii. 32)--iii. 263;
(ii. 34)--ii. 497;
(i. 846)--v. 73;
(ii. 858)--iii. 294;
(ii. 534)--v. 439;
(ii. 708)--ii. 479;
(iii. 138)--v. 83;
(iii. 155)--v. 90;
(iv)--1. 496;
(iv. 55)--iii. 314, v. 365;
(iv. 170)--i. 66;
(iv. 416)--ii. 493;
(vi. 311)--ii. 465;
(vi. 424)--iii. 340;
(vii. 456)--iii. 334;
(viii. 6)--iii. 334;
(viii. 271)--ii. 501;
(ix)--ii. 454;
(x)--i. 477;
(x. 100)--i. 512;
(x. 247)--v. 260;
(x. 298)--ii. 491;
(x. 560)--v. 83;
(xi)--i. 464;
(xi. 174)--v. 317;
(xi. 410)--i. 464;
(xi. 592)--iii. 247;
(xi. 640)--i. 468;
(xii. 39)--iii. 258, 259, 261;
(xii. 43)--iii. 266;
(xii. 44)--iii. 285;
(xii. 49)--iii. 266;
(xii. 53)--iii. 279;
(xii. 54)--iii. 286;
Remedia Amoris (127)--v. 202, 368;
(421)--v. 214;
(462)--ii. 488; _and see_ i. 477;
Tristia (i. 9. 5)--v. 219.
See also vol. iii. pp. xxxvii-xl; and the passage (from Met. xii.
39-63) printed in vol. iii. pp. ix, x.
Pamphilus Maurilianus (13th century),
Liber de Amore, v. 219, 391.
Percival, Romance of Sir, v. 200.
Persius,
Prologue to Satires, v. 387.
Peter Comestor (12th century),
Historia Evangelica, being part of his Historia Scholastica, v. 278.
Petrarch, Francis,
De Obedientia ac Fide Uxoris, v. 343;
Sonnet 88--ii. 464.
*Petrus Alfonsi, _or_ Petrus Alphonsus (12th century),
Disciplina Clericalis, v. 205-6, 209-11, 213, 219.
Petrus de Riga (12th century),
Aurora, i. 492.
Philippe Gautier de Chatillon, _or_ Gualtier de Lille (12th century),
Alexandreid, v. 304.
Physiologus (_by_ Theobald _or_ Thetbald), v. 256.
*Plato referred to, v. 57;
De Legibus, ii. 451;
Gorgias, ii. 448;
Phaedo, ii. 443:
Republic, ii. 423, 424, 448;
Sophistes, ii. 444;
Timaeus, ii. 441, 444.
Ptolemy, Claudius (2nd century),
Syntaxis Megale, or Almagest, ii. 434; iii. 354-6; v. 97, 148-9, 296;
Tetrabiblos, iii. 234.
*Publilius Syrus (died B. C. 44),
Sententiae, v. 205, 206, 208, 210, 211, 213, 214, 215, 217, 218, 223,
224.
*Pythagoras (mentioned in the Rom. of the Rose, Fragment B), i. 440.
*Quintus Curtius (1st century),
Life of Alexander, v. 244.
Renard, Roman de, v. 123.
*Rhasis (10th century), v. 41, 42.
Roman de la Rose (_by_ Guillaume de Lorris, and Jean de Meun, 13th
century),
i. 470-2, 474-5, 447-486, 489, 490, 492, 509-11, 537, 539-46, 548,
553-5;
ii. 465-6, 469-71, 473, 483, 488, 497;
iii. 246, 248, 250, 252, 268, 274, 281, 289, 294, 296, 298, 303;
v. 16, 17, 39, 42, 44, 57, 62, 67, 73, 78, 79, 86, 87, 94, 160, 242,
246-7, 256-7, 261-4, 274, 295-7, 299, 300, 302, 304, 305, 307, 320,
337, 355, 358, 360, 363-4, 378, 388, 401, 440;
_and see_ i. 16; ii. lxv.
*Rufus of Ephesus (2nd century), v. 41.
*St. Amour, William de (alluded to in the Romaunt of the Rose, Fragment
C), i. 446.
Salisbury; _see_ John.
*Sallust, v. 222.
Secretum Secretorum (said to be from Aristotle), v. 433.
See Aristotle.
Seneca (died A. D. 65),
De Beneficiis, v. 38, 206, 358;
De Clementia, v. 215, 224, 461;
De Ira, v. 218, 338;
Epistolae (1), v. 135;
(2), v. 320;
(47), v. 468;
(63), v. 203;
(74), v. 203;
(83), v. 278;
(94), v. 222;
(111), v. 214.
*Seneca, M. Annaeus (about B. C. to A. D. 32),
Controversiae, v. 206.
Senior Zadith filius Hamuelis,
Tabula Chemica, v. 433.
*Serapion (11th century), v. 41, 42.
Simeon Metaphrastes (10th century),
Vitae Sanctorum, iii. 486-8.
Statius, P. Papinius (1st century),
Thebaid, ii. 468;
argument of, ii. 501;
(Theb. ii. 265)--1. 504;
(vi. 98)--v. 92;
(vi. 110)--v. 93;
(vi. 722)--v. 84;
(vii. 40)--i. 530, v. 81;
(vii. 47, 48)--v. 79;
(vii. 58)--v. 82;
(viii. 632), v. 87;
(viii. 637)--v. 91;
(xi. 483)--i. 459;
(xii. 482)--v. 63;
(xii. 519)--i. 531, v. 61;
(xii. 545)--v. 63;
(xii. 650)--v. 62, 64;
(xii. 816)--ii. 503.
_See also_ i. 62.
Suetonius Tranquillus (2nd century),
Life of Nero, v. 242, 244, 245.
*Tertullian, v. 309.
*Theophrastus, pupil of Aristotle (died B. C. 287),
Liber Aureolus de Nuptiis, preserved in Jerome's treatise against
Jovinian, v. 296, 298-9, 308, 439.
Tristram and Ysoude, Romance of, i. 515, 550, iii. 282, 299.
Trivet, Nicholas, Anglo-Norman Chronicle (A. D. 1334),
iii. 409, v. 154, 158, 162, 164-5.
*Trotula, v. 308, 309.
Tullius, i. 558;
_see_ Cicero.
Valerii Epistola ad Rufinum; _see_ Map.
Valerius Flaccus,
Argonauticon lib. iv--ii. 495, iii. 326.
Valerius Maximus (1st century),
De Factis Dictisque Memorabilibus (i. 7)--v. 253;
(iii. 4)--v. 320;
(vi. 3)--v. 301, 307.
Venantius Fortunatus (6th century), v. 155.
Vergil,
*Eclogues (iii. 95)--v. 337;
Aeneid i, iii. 249, 250;
Aen. i--iv, iii. 317-24;
(Aen. i. 85)--iii. 344;
(ii)--iii. 250-1;
(ii. 333)--v. 257;
(iv)--iii. 250-1;
(iv-xii)--iii. 252;
(v. 6)--v. 337;
(v. 823)--iii. 344;
(vi. 743)--ii. 498;
(x. 284)--ii. 488.
Vincent of Beauvais (13th century),
Speculum Naturale, i. 545, v. 2;
Speculum Historiale, i. 303, v. 255, 321.
Vinsauf, Geoffrey de (late 12th century),
Nova Poetria, v. 257.
*Vitello, _or_ Vitellio (13th century), v. 378. (Probably quoted at
second-hand.)
Viterbo, Godfrey of (12th century),
Speculum Regum, iii. xxxix (note 2), lvi.
William d'Amiens (13th century),
Roundel, i. 548.
Zael,
Liber Electionum, v. 151.
*Zeuxis, ii. 487; v. 261.
* * * * *
BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THE NOTES, ETC.
The following is a list of some of the principal books referred to in the
Notes or elsewhere, as being serviceable for the explanation of Chaucer. I
omit several that are but rarely mentioned, and are, at the same time,
sufficiently indicated. Some are included of which I have made but little
use.
The abbreviation 'E. E. T. S.' signifies the Early English Text Society;
the abbreviation 'C. S.' signifies the Camden Society; and 'Ch. S.'
signifies the Chaucer Society.
* * * * *
Agrippa, H. C.; De Occulta Philosophia; Coloniae, 1533; folio.
Albertani Brixiensis Liber Consolationis; ed. Thor Sundby. Ch. S., 1873.
Alexander; _see_ King; _and see_ Wars _and_ Weber.
Alliterative Poems, ed. Morris; E. E. T. S., 1864; reprinted, 1869.
Ancren Riwle, ed. Jas. Morton; C. S., 1873.
Anglia: Zeitschrift f[:u]r Englische Philologie; ed. R. P. W[:u]lker.
Halle, 1878-94. I here note the principal articles on Chaucer:--
I. 38, 186; on the Miller's Tale.
II. 135; on the Miller's Tale.
II. 532; on the Ch. Soc. Publications (Koch).
III. 179; on the Parson's Tale and Minor Poems (Koch).
III. 554; on Ward's Life of Chaucer (Koch).
IV. 238; 'Nun-Chaplain' (Furnivall).
IV. 44 (Appendix); Minor Poems (Schr[:o]er).
IV. 93 (Appendix); Minor Poems (Koch).
V. 313; Legend of Good Women (Bech).
V. 130 (Appendix); Eilers, on the Parson's Tale (Koch).
V. 138 (Appendix); Ch. Prologue, ed. Zupitza (Koch).
VI. 105; note on Prol. 459 (Koch).
VI. 80 (Appendix); Troilus (Koch).
VI. 91 (Appendix); Book of the Duchesse (Koch).
VII. 116; Miller's Tale.
VII. 24 (Appendix); House of Fame, ed. Willert (Koch); 203 (Willert).
VII. 155 (Appendix); Sources of the Merchant's Tale (Varnhagen).
VIII. 453; four short notes; Prol. and Kn. Tale.
VIII. 154 (Appendix); Essays on Chaucer (review by Koch).
XII. 532; The Present Tense in Chaucer (Gr[:a]f).
XIII. 174; Jerome against Jovinian; Epistola Valerii; Dante
(K[:o]ppel).
XIII. 363 (a note).
XIV. 77, 147; Man of Law's Tale (L[:u]cke).
XIV. 227; St. Cecile; Boccaccio's Amorosa Visione; J. de Meun
(K[:o]ppel).
XVI. 261; Miller's Tale.
XVI. 264; Ho. Fame, 1227.
Annals of England; Oxford and London, 1876.
Ashmole, E., Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. London, 1652.
Audelay's Poems, ed. J. O. Halliwell; Percy Soc., 1844.
Ayenbite of Inwyt, by Dan Michel of Northgate; ed. R. Morris, E. E. T.
S., 1866.
Babees Book; ed. F. J. Furnivall, E. E. T. S., 1868.
Ballerstedt (Erich); [:u]ber Chaucers Naturschilderungen. Ein Beitrag zur
Entwicklungs- und Quellengeschichte des Dichters. G[:o]ttingen, 1891.
Barbour, J., The Bruce; ed. W. W. Skeat; E. E. T. S., 1870-7.
Barclay's Ship of Fools, ed. T. H. Jamieson; 2 vols. Edinburgh and
London, 1874.
Baret's Alvearie, or Quadruple Dictionarie; London, 1580.
Batman vppon Bartholom[`e], his Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum. London,
1582, folio.
Bech, M.; Quelle und Plan der _Legende of Good Women_; in Anglia, vol. v.
pp. 313-382.
Bell, R.; Works of Chaucer, in 4 vols. Revised edition; London, 1878.
Bennewitz, C. J., dissertation on Sir Thopas; Halle, 1879.
Beryn, The Tale of; ed. F. J. Furnivall; Ch. S., 1876.
Beves of Hamptoun, Sir; ed. E. K[:o]lbing; E. E. T. S., 1885-6.
Bible Word-book; _see_ Wright.
Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis. Auctoritate edita. Parisiis, 1872.
Blount, Tho.; Nomolexicon, a Law Dictionary; 2nd ed. London, 1691.
Boccaccio, G.; Il Decameron; 2 vols. Milano, 1886.
---- Il Teseide; Milano, 1819.
---- Il Filostrato; in the Opere Volgari di G. B.; Firenze, 1832.
---- Amorosa Visione; in the same.
B[:o]ddeker, K.; Altenglische Dichtungen des MS. Harl. 2253; Berlin,
1878.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae; ed. T. Obbarius, Jena, 1843.
_Also_ ed. Renatus Vallinus, Lugd. Batavorum, 1656.
---- Chaucer's translation of, ed. R. Morris; E. E. T. S., 1878.
---- the same, ed. F. J. Furnivall; Ch. S., 1886.
_And see_ Stewart.
Boke of St. Albans, by Dame Juliana Berners [and others]; ed. W. Blades,
London, 1881. (Reprint of ed. 1486.)
Brae, A. E.; Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe; London, 1870.
Brand, John, M. A.; Observations on Popular Antiquities; ed. H. Ellis. In
3 vols. (in Bonn's Antiq. Library); London, 1848.
British Poets; ed. A. Chalmers; London, 1810. (In 21 vols.; vol. 1
contains Chaucer's Works, and all the other works formerly published
along with them.)
Burguy, G. F.; Grammaire de la Langue D'Oil; 2me ed. Berlin and Paris,
1870. (In 3 vols. Vol. iii. contains an excellent O. F. Glossary.)
Burton, Robert; The Anatomy of Melancholy; 13th ed. 2 vols. London, 1827.
Butler, Alban; Lives of the Saints. 2 vols. Dublin, 1833.
Butler, S.; Hudibras; ed. A. Milnes; 2 vols. London, 1883.
Cary, H. F.; tr. of Dante; new ed. London, 1850.
Catholicon Anglicum, dated 1483; ed. S. J. Herrtage; E. E. T. S., 1881.
Cato, Dionysius; Disticha Moralia. (Various editions.)
Caxton, W.; The Golden Legende (reprinted by W. Morris at the Kelmscott
Press in 3 vols. 1892).
Century Dictionary, The; 6 vols. New York and London, 1889-91.
Chambers, R.; The Book of Days. 2 vols. London and Edinburgh, 1864.
Chaucer, editions of;
_see_ Bell, British Poets, Gilman, Morris, Speght, Stowe, Thynne,
Tyrwhitt, Urry, Wright;
_also_ Corson (Legend of Good Women); Koch (Minor Poems).
Chaucer Society's Publications.
Chester Plays, ed. T. Wright. Shak. Soc., 1843-7.
Child, F. J.; Observations on the Language of Chaucer. In the Memoirs of
the American Academy, New Series, vol. viii. pp. 445-502; 1862.
Complaint of Scotland, the; re-edited by Dr. J. A. H. Murray. E. E. T.
S., 1872-3.
Corson, Hiram; an edition of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women; with notes;
Philadelphia, 1864.
Cotgrave, Randle; A French and English Dictionary; London, 1660. (Not an
early edition.)
Court of Love; a poem first printed by Stowe, with Chaucer's Works; 1561.
Coventry Mysteries; ed. J. O. Halliwell; Shak. Soc. 1841.
Cowel, Dr.; The Interpreter of Words and Terms; continued by T. Manley;
London, 1701.
Cromie, H.; Ryme-Index to the Ellesmere MS. of the Canterbury Tales; Ch.
S., 1875.
Cuckoo and the Nightingale, the; printed with Chaucer's Works, ed.
Thynne, 1532;
_also in_ ed. 1542, 1550, 1561.
Cursor Mundi; ed. Dr. R. Morris; E. E. T. S., 1874-92.
Cutts, Rev. E. L.; Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages. London,
1872.
Dante; La Commedia di Dante Alighieri, ed. Brunone Bianchi; Firenze,
1857.
Deschamps, Eustache; Oeuvres in['e]dites; ed. P. Tarb['e]; Reims and
Paris, 1849.
[A later edition for the Soci['e]t['e] des Anciens Textes Francais;
Paris, 1878-87.]
Dictionary; _see_ New _and_ Century.
Dodsley, R.; Old English Plays. 4th edition; by W. Carew Hazlitt. 15
vols. 8vo. London, 1874.
Douglas, Gawain, Works of; ed. J. Small; 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1874.
Dryden, J.; Poetical Works; London, E. Moxon, 1876.
Ducange; Glossarium Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis; ed. L. Favre; Niort
and London, 1884-7.
Dunbar, W.; Poems of, ed. J. Small, completed by W. Gregor; Scottish Text
Society; Edinburgh, 1883-93.
Dunlop, John; The History of Fiction. 3rd ed. London, 1845.
D[:u]ringsfeld, Ida von; Sprichw[:o]rter der Germanischen und Romanischen
Sprachen. 2 vols. 1872-5.
Early English Poems, ed. F. J. Furnivall; Philological Society; London,
1862.
Early English Text Society's publications.
Eilers, Dr. W.; Dissertation on the Parson's Tale (English version); in
Essays on Chaucer; Ch. S., 1884.
Ellis, A. J.; On Early English Pronunciation; published for the Phil.
Soc., E. E. T. S., and Ch. S., London, 1869-89.
English Dialect Society's publications (marked E. D. S.).
English Gilds, ed. Toulmin Smith (E. E. T. S.); London, 1870.
Englische Studien, ed. Dr. E. K[:o]lbing; contains numerous important
articles; some of which I here note:--
I. 215; on Chaucer's Second Nonnes Tale (K[:o]lbing).
II. 94, 321; on Gamelyn (F. Lindner).
II. 528; on the Knightes Tale (K[:o]lbing).
III. 209; on the House of Fame (A. Rambeau).
IX. 111; on Gamelyn (F. Lindner).
IX. 240; Reeve's Tale (H. Varnhagen).
XI. 163; Rom. Rose (F. Lindner).
XI. 495; on Sir Thopas (K[:o]lbing).
XII. 161; on the Squieres Tale (wrong).
XII. 469; on the date of the C. T. (wrong).
XIII. 1; on the Squieres Tale (G. L. Kittredge).
XIII. 528; Rom. Rose (Kaluza).
XIV. 1; on Caxton's print of Boethius (Kellner).
XV. 399; Minor Poems; Legend; House of Fame (Koch).
XVI. 273; The Prologue (K[:o]lbing).
XVII. 189; dates of Chaucer's poems (K[:o]ppel).
XVIII. 104, 106; on the Romaunt.
Essays on Chaucer; Ch. S.
Fabyan's Chronicles; ed. H. Ellis. 4to. London, 1811.
Fairholt, F. W., Costume in England; ed. H. A. Dillon; 2 vols. London,
1885.
Florio, Iohn; a Worlde of Wordes (An Italian and English Dictionary);
London, 1598.
Flower and the Leaf, The; a poem first printed by Speght in 1598.
Francis, H. T.; The Vedabbha J[=a]taka; translated from the Pali, and
compared with Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale. With Introduction and Notes.
Cambridge, 1884.
Freudenberger (Markus). Ueber das Fehlen des Auftakts in Chaucers
heroischem Verse (Erlanger Beitr[:a]ge, iv). 8vo. Erlangen, 1889.
Froissart's Chronicles; translated by Thos. Johnes. 2 vols. London, 1839.
Furnivall, F. J.; Trial Forewords to the Minor Poems. Ch. S., 1871.
---- Temporary Preface to the Six-text Edition. Ch. S., 1868.
Gamelyn, The Tale of, ed. Skeat; Oxford, 1884.
Gawayn and the Grene Knight, ed. Morris; E. E. T. S., 1864; reprinted,
1869.
Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy; ed. Panton and Donaldson; E.
E. T. S., 1869-74.
Gesta Romanorum; ed. C. Swan; revised by W. Hooper; London, 1877.
Gibbon, E.; Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; 2 vols. London, Virtue
and Co.; no date.
Gilman, A.; Chaucer's Poetical Works. 3 vols. Boston, 1879.
Godefroy, F.; Dictionnaire de l'ancienne Langue Francaise; 8 vols. Paris,
1881-94.
Golding, Arthur; translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses; London, 1603.
Gorra, E.; Testi Inediti di Storia Trojana; Turin, 1887.
Gower, Confessio Amantis, ed. Pauli; 3 vols. London, 1857.
Guy of Warwick, ed. J. Zupitza; E. E. T. S., 1876-86.
Haeckel, W.; Das Sprichwort bei Chaucer (Erlanger Beitr[:a]ge, viii).
8vo. Erlangen, 1890.
Hales, John W.; Folia Litteraria; London, 1893.
Halliwell, J. O.; A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words. 2 vols.
5th edition; London, 1865.
Hampole, R. Rolle de; The Pricke of Conscience, ed. Morris; Phil. Soc.
London, 1863.
Havelok the Dane, ed. W. W. Skeat; E. E. T. S., 1868.
Hazlitt, W. C.; Early Popular Poetry of England; 4 vols. London, 1864.
---- English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases; London, 1869.
_And see_ Dodsley _and_ Warton.
Hendyng, The Proverbs of; printed in Specimens of English, ed. Morris and
Skeat.
Higden's Polychronicon; with Trevisa's translation. (Record
Publications); London, 1865-76.
Hoccleve, T.; Minor Poems of; ed. F. J. Furnivall; E. E. T. S., 1892.
---- De Regimine Principum, ed. T. Wright (Roxburgh Club); London, 1860.
Holland, P.; translation of Pliny's Natural History; 2 vols. London,
1634.
Horman's Vulgaria; pr. by Pynson; London, 1519.
Jack Upland; in Chalmers' British Poets, vol. i.
Jameson, Mrs.; Legends of the Monastic Orders; London, 1850.
---- Sacred and Legendary Art; 3rd edition, 2 vols. London, 1857.
Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary; new edition, by J. Longmuir and D.
Donaldson; 4 vols. and Supplement; Paisley, 1879-87.
Kaluza, Max: Chaucer und der Rosenroman. Berlin, 1893.
---- The Romaunt of the Rose, from the Glasgow MS., parallel with its
original, Le Roman de la Rose: Part I.--The Texts. Ch. S., 1891.
Keightley, T., Fairy Mythology. 2 vols. London, 1828.
Kemble, J. M., Salomon and Saturn; printed for the Aelfric Society;
London, 1848.
King Alisaunder; in Weber's Met. Rom. vol. i.
Kingis Quair, The; by King James I. of Scotland; ed. W. W. Skeat.
Scottish Text Soc.; Edinburgh, 1883-4.
Kittredge, G. L.; On the Romaunt of the Rose; in Studies and Notes in
Philology and Literature. Boston, U.S.A., 1892.
Klaeber (Friedrich); Das Bild bei Chaucer. 8vo. Berlin, 1893.
Knight of la Tour-Landry; ed. T. Wright; E. E. T. S., 1868.
Koch, J.; A Critical Edition of some of Chaucer's Minor Poems.
Wissenschaftliche Beilage zum Programm des Dorotheenst[:a]dtischen
Realgymnasiums. Ostern, 1883. Berlin, 1883 (Programm No. 93).
K[:o]ppel, E.; Chaucer und Innocent des Dritten Traktat De Contemptu
Mundi. In Archiv f[:u]r das Studium der neueren Sprachen; ed. L.
Herrig; vol. 84; pp. 405-418.
---- Chaucer und Albertanus Brixiensis. In Archiv f[:u]r das Studium der
neueren Sprachen; ed. L. Herrig; vol. 86; pp. 29-46.
---- Chaucers Prosawerke; die Echtheit der Parson's Tale. In Herrig's
Archiv, &c.; vol. 87; pp. 33-54.
---- Chaucer und Alanus de Insulis. In Herrig's Archiv, &c.; vol. 90; pp.
149-151.
_See also_ Anglia, xiii. 174; and xiv. 227.
Lacroix, P.; Manners, Customs, and Dress during the Middle Ages; London,
1874.
Land of Cockaigne; in M[:a]tzner's Sprachproben.
Lange, Max; Untersuchungen [:u]ber Chaucer's Boke of the Duchesse; Halle,
1883.
Langtoft:--Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, tr. by Robert of Brunne; ed. T.
Hearne. 2 vols. Oxford, 1725; reprinted, London, 1810.
Layamon's Brut; ed. Sir F. Madden. 3 vols. Soc. of Antiquaries; London,
1847.
Legenda Aurea, ed. Dr. Th. Gr[:a]sse. 2nd ed. Leipsic, 1850.
Le Roux de Lincy, Proverbes Francais.
Levins, Manipulus Vocabulorum, ed. H. B. Wheatley; E. E. T. S., 1867.
Lewis, W. L.; translation of Statius; in Chalmers' British Poets, vol.
20.
Liber Albus; tr. by H. T. Riley, M.A. London, 1861.
Liber Cure Cocorum; ed. R. Morris. Philological Soc., London, 1862.
Liber Custumarum; ed. H. T. Riley. (Record Series.) London, 1860.
Lounsbury, T. R.; Studies in Chaucer. 3 vols. London, 1892.
Lydgate, J.; Complaint of the Black Knight; in Morris's Chaucer, vi. 235.
---- Falls of Princes; pr. by John Wayland. London, n. d.
---- The Hors, Shepe, and Goos; in Political, &c. Poems, ed. Furnivall;
E. E. T. S., 1866.
---- Temple of Glas; ed. Schick; E. E. T. S., 1891.
---- The Troy-boke; London, 1555.
---- Minor Poems, ed. J. O. Halliwell, Percy Soc., 1840.
Lyndsay, Sir D.; Buke of the Monarch['e]; ed. J. Small; E. E. T. S.,
1865-6.
McClumpha, C. F.; The Alliteration of Chaucer. Leipzig, n. d.
Machault; Les Oeuvres de G. de Machault, ed. P. Tarb['e]; Reims and
Paris, 1849.
M[:a]tzner, E.; Old English Dictionary; A-L; Berlin, 1878-91.
---- Englische Grammatik; Berlin, 1860-5.
M[:a]tzner, E., and K. Goldbeck, Altenglische Sprachproben; Berlin,
1867-9.
Malory, Sir Thomas; Morte d'Arthur; ed. H. O. Sommer (reprint of Caxton);
London, 1889-91.
Manly, J. M.; On The Legend of Good Women; in Studies and Notes in
Philology and Literature. Boston, U.S.A., 1893.
Marco Polo's Travels; ed. H. Yule; 2 vols. London, 1871.
Marie de France, Die Lais der; ed. K. Warncke; Halle, 1885.
Marlowe, C., Works of; ed. Lt.-Col. F. Cunningham; London, 1870.
Marsh, G. P.; Lectures on the English Language, ed. Dr. W. Smith; London,
1862.
---- Origin and History of the English Language; London, 1862.
Massingberd, Rev. F. C.; The English Reformation; 3rd ed. London, 1857.
Massinger, P., The Plays of; ed. Lt.-Col. F. Cunningham; London, 1868.
Maundeville's Travels, ed. J. O. Halliwell; London, 1866.
Metrical Romances; _see_ Ritson _and_ Weber.
Migne, M. L'Abb['e]; Cursus Patrologicus. (An edition of the Latin
Fathers, with indices.)
Monumenta Franciscana, ed. J. S. Brewer. (Record Publications.) London,
1858.
Moral Ode, A; in Morris's Specimens of Early English, Part I.
More, Sir T., Works; London, 1557, folio.
Morley, H.; English Writers; 10 vols.; London, 1887-93.
Morris, R.; Chaucer's Poetical Works; London, 1860-6.
---- Historical Outlines of English Accidence; London, 1872.
Morte Arthure (an alliterative poem); ed. E. Brock; E. E. T. S., 1865.
Myrc's Duties of a Parish Priest; ed. E. Peacock; E. E. T. S., 1868.
Myrour of Our Lady, ed. J. H. Blount; E. E. T. S., 1873.
Mythographi Latini; Amsterdam, 1681.
Nares, Archdeacon; A Glossary; ed. Halliwell and Wright. 2 vols. London,
1876.
Neckam, A.; De Naturis Rerum; ed. T. Wright. (Record Publications.)
London, 1863.
New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; ed. J. A. H. Murray and
H. Bradley; Oxford, 1884, &c.
Occleve; _see_ Hoccleve.
Old English Miscellany, An; ed. R. Morris; E. E. T. S., 1872.
Old English Plays (Dodsley's Collection), ed. W. C. Hazlitt; 15 vols.
London, 1876.
Originals and Analogues of some of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Ch. Soc.
Ormulum, The; ed. R. M. White. 2 vols. Oxford, 1852.
Our English Home, 2nd ed. Oxford and London, 1861.
Owl and Nightingale, The; ed. T. Wright; London, 1843.
_And see_ Morris, Specimens of English, Part I.
Palladius on Husbandry, ed. B. Lodge and S. J. Herrtage; E. E. T. S.,
1872-80.
Palsgrave.--Lesclaircissement de la Langue Francoyse, par Maistre Jehan
Palsgrave; 1530. (Reprint; Paris, 1852.)
Parker Society's Publications.
Paston Letters: ed. J. Gairdner; 3 vols. London, 1872-5.
Percy Folio MS., ed. J. W. Hales and F. J. Furnivall. 3 vols. London,
1867-8.
Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry; ed. R. A. Willmott; London,
1857.
Peter Comestor; Historia Scholastica; 4to. Paris, 1518.
Philip de Thaun; _see_ Popular Treatises on Science.
Piaget, A.; Oton de Granson et ses Po['e]sies. (Extrait de la _Romania_,
tome xix.) Paris, 1890.
Pierce the Ploughmans Crede, ed. W. W. Skeat; E. E. T. S., 1867.
Piers Plowman; ed. W. W. Skeat. In 4 parts. E. E. T. S., 1867-85.
---- 2 vols. Oxford, 1886.
Political Poems and Songs, ed. T. Wright; (Record Publications.) 2 vols.
1859-61.
Political Songs, ed. T. Wright; C. S., 1839.
Political, Religious, and Love Poems; ed. F. J. Furnivall; E. E. T. S.,
1866.
Pollard, A. W.; Chaucer (Primer); London, 1893. (An edition of the
Canterbury Tales, by the same editor, has just appeared.)
Popular Treatises on Science; ed. T. Wright. London, 1841.
Promptorium Parvulorum; ed. A. Way; C. S., 1843-65.
Ratis Raving; ed. J. R. Lumby; E. E. T. S., 1870.
Ray, John; A Collection of English Words not generally used; ed. W. W.
Skeat; E. D. S., 1874.
---- A compleat Collection of English Proverbs. 3rd ed. London, 1737.
Reliquiae Antiquae; ed. Wright and Halliwell. 2 vols. London, 1841-3.
Richard the Redeless; _printed with_ Piers the Plowman, ed. W. W. Skeat.
Riley, H. T.; Memorials of London; London, 1868.
Ritson, J.; Ancient Engleish (_sic_) Metrical Romance[:e]s. 3 vols.
London, 1802.
(Contains: Ywaine and Gawin; Launfal; Lybeaus Disconus; K. Horn; King
of Tars; Emare; Sir Orpheo; Chronicle of England; Le Bone Florence;
Erle of Tolous; Squyr of Lowe Degree; Knight of Curtesy.)
Robert of Brunne, Handlyng Synne; ed. F. J. Furnivall (Roxburgh Club),
1862.
Robert of Gloucester, ed. T. Hearne, 2 vols. Oxford, 1724; reprint,
London, 1810.
_Also_ ed. W. A. Wright (Record Publications). 2 vols. 1887.
Rock, D.: The Church of Our Fathers; 3 vols. London, 1849-52.
Roman de la Rose; ed. M['e]on. 4 vols. Paris, 1813.
Romans of Partenay; ed. W. W. Skeat; E. E. T. S., 1866.
Roquefort, J. B. B.; Glossaire de la Langue Romane. 2 vols.; with
supplement. Paris, 1808-20.
Sandras, E. G.; ['E]tude sur Chaucer; Paris, 1859. (See review by Ebert,
Jahrbuch fur Romanische und Englische Literatur, 1861; tr. in Essays
on Chaucer; Ch. S.)
Saunders, J.; Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; with illustrations of English
Life in Chaucer's Time; London, 1889.
Seelman, W.; Die Vogelsprachen (Vogelparlamente) der mittelalterlichen
Litteratur. From the Jahrbuch des Vereins f[:u]r niederdeutsche
Sprachforschung. Jahrgang 1888. Norden und Leipzig, 1889.
Shakespeare.--The Globe Edition; Cambridge and London, 1864.
Shakespeare's Plutarch; ed. Skeat; London, 1875.
Shepheards Kalendar, The; printed in 1604; and again in 1656, folio.
Shoreham, W.; Poems of, ed. T. Wright; Percy Soc., 1849.
Skeat, W. W.; Etymological Dictionary. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1884.
Skelton's Works; ed. Rev. A. Dyce; 2 vols. London, 1843.
Skinner's Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae; London, 1671.
South-English Legendary or Lives of Saints; ed. Horstmann; E. E. T. S.,
1887.
Sowdone of Babylon; ed. Dr. Hausknecht; E. E. T. S., 1881.
Specimens of Early English; Part I. ed. R. Morris; 2nd ed. Oxford, 1885.
Part II. ed. R. Morris and W. W. Skeat; 3rd ed. Oxford, 1894.
Specimens of English Literature, ed. W. W. Skeat; 5th ed. Oxford, 1890.
Speght.--Chaucer's Works, ed. T. Speght, London, 1598; 2nd ed. 1602.
Spenser, E.; Works of, ed. R. Morris and J. W. Hales; London, 1869.
Stewart, H. F.; Boethius, an Essay; Edinburgh and London, 1891.
Stowe, John; Chaucer's Works; London, 1561, folio.
---- Survey of London, ed. W. J. Thoms; London, 1842.
Stratmann, F. H.; A Middle-English Dictionary; ed. H. Bradley; Oxford,
1891.
Strutt, J.; Manners, Customs, &c., of the Inhabitants of England; 3 vols.
London, 1774-6.
---- The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England; ed. W. Hone;
London, 1876.
Swainson, Rev. C.; Provincial Names of British Birds; E. D. S., 1885.
Sweet, H., Second Middle-English Primer; Oxford, 1886.
Ten Brink, B.; Chaucer: Studien zur Geschichte seiner Entwicklung;
M[:u]nster, 1870.
---- Chaucer's Sprache und Verskunst; Leipzig, 1884.
---- Early English Literature; tr. by H. M. Kennedy; London, 1883.
---- English Literature; tr. by W. Clarke Robinson; London, 1893.
Testament of Love, The; printed with Chaucer's Works, in the old
editions.
Theatrum Chemicum; 5 vols. London, 1659.
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, by E. Ashmole; London, 1652. 4to.
Thornton Romances, ed. J. O. Halliwell; London, C. S., 1844. (Contains
Sir Percival, Sir Isumbras, Sir Eglamour, and Sir Degrevant.)
Three Metrical Romances, ed. J. Robson; London, C. S., 1842. (Contains
The Anturs of Arthur, Sir Amadace, and the Avowynge of Arthur.)
Thynne, F.; Animadversions on Speght's Chaucer, ed. Furnivall; Ch. S.,
1875.
Thynne; Chaucer's Workes, ed. W. Thynne; London. 1532, folio.
Todd, Rev. H. J.; Illustrations of Gower and Chaucer; London, 1810.
Trevisa, R.; translation of Higden; _see_ Higden.
Tyrwhitt, T.; Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 5 vols. 8vo. London, 1775-8.
---- The Poetical Works of G. Chaucer, with an Essay, &c.; by T.
Tyrwhitt. London, E. Moxon, 1845; reprinted, 1855.
[_Not_ edited by Tyrwhitt, except as regards the Canterbury Tales.]
Udall, N.; translation of the Apothegmes of Erasmus; Boston, 1877.
Urry J.; Chaucer's Works; London, 1871, folio.
Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Doctrinale, Naturale, Historiale; Venice,
1494.
Vulgate; _see_ Biblia.
Wallace, The; by Henry the Minstrel; ed. J. Jamieson; Edinburgh, 1820;
_also_ ed. J. Moir, Scottish Text Soc., 1884-9.
Ward, A. W., Life of Chaucer; London, 1875.
Wars of Alexander, ed. W. W. Skeat; E. E. T. S., 1886.
Warton, History of English Poetry; 3 vols. London, 1840.
_Also_, ed. Hazlitt; 4 vols. London, 1871.
Weber's Metrical Romances; 3 vols. London, 1810. (_Contains_ King
Alisaunder, Sir Cleges, Lai le Freine; Richard Coer de Lion,
Ipomydon, Amis and Amiloun; Seven Sages, Octovian, Sir Amadas,
Hunting of the Hare.)
Wheeler, W. A., A Dictionary of Noted Names of Fiction; London, 1866.
Willert, Hans; G. Chaucer, The Hous of Fame; Text, Varianten,
Anmerkungen, Berlin, 1888. (Wissenschaftliche Beilage zum Programm
der Margarethenschule zu Berlin.)
William of Palerne, ed. W. W. Skeat; E. E. T. S., 1867.
Wright, T.; Biographia Britannica Literaria; 2 vols. London, 1842-6.
---- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. A new Text, &c. London, n. d.
---- History of Domestic Manners; _also called_ Homes of Other Days.
London, 1871.
---- Vocabularies; 2nd edition, ed. R. P. W[:u]lcker; 2 vols. London,
1884.
_And see_ Popular Treatises.
Wright, W. A.; The Bible Word-book; 2nd ed. London, 1884.
Wyclif, J.; Select English Works, ed. T. Arnold; 3 vols. Oxford,
1869-71.
---- English Works, hitherto unprinted; ed. F. D. Matthew; E. E. T. S.,
1880.
Wycliffite Versions of the Bible; ed. Rev. J. Forshall and Sir F. Madden;
Oxford, 1850.
York Mystery Plays; ed. Lucy Toulmin Smith; Oxford, 1885.
Zupitza (Julius): Die mittelenglische Vorstufe von Shakespeare's As You
Like It. In the Jahrbuch der deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, vol.
xxi. p. 69. Weimar, 1886.
[On The Tale of Gamelyn, see vol. iii. p. 405.]
---- Chaucer's Prologue. Berlin, 1882.
* * * * *
LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS AND OLD EDITIONS.
The various MSS. and editions collated in this edition (besides others
which do not afford much help) are all duly enumerated in their proper
places. It is, perhaps, advisable to say expressly, that the same symbol is
often used for different MSS.; and that the same MS. is sometimes (not
often) denoted by different symbols. But no confusion need arise, as this
never happens with respect to the same piece. For example, in the Minor
Poems, 'A.' occurs as a symbol for MS. Ashinole 59; whilst in the Legend of
Good Women, the same symbol occurs for MS. Arch. Selden B. 24. Again, in
the Minor Poems, MS. Arch. Selden B. 24 is denoted by the symbol 'Ar.,' but
in the Legend by 'A.,' as above. All that is necessary to fix the meaning
of the symbol employed is to consult the 'Introduction' to the piece under
consideration. And all that need be given here is a full statement of the
references to the various descriptions of the MSS.
Romaunt of the Rose; i. 11.
Minor Poems; i. 48-58.
Boethius; ii. xxxvii-xlvi.
Troilus; ii. lxvii-lxxv.
Hous of Fame; iii. xiii.
Legend of Good Women; iii. xlvii-li.
Astrolabe; iii. lvii-lxii.
Canterbury Tales; iv. viii-xv.
Similar remarks apply to the old editions; the descriptions of them follow
the descriptions of the MSS.
* * * * *
GENERAL LIST OF ERRATA,
INCLUDING A FEW EMENDATIONS AND ADDENDA.
The Lists of Errata already given in previous volumes are here collected,
with a few emendations and additions. The length of the list is a subject
of regret on my part, and is partly due to the difficulty of the work and
to the attempt to give a new and improved text. A considerable number of
the Errata are, however, of a very trivial nature; on which account those
which seem to be of some importance are marked with a preceding asterisk.
* * * * *
ERRATA IN VOLUME I.
P. ix. See vol. v. p. 490.
P. xxiii; l. 14. _For_ 1868 _read_ 1368.
*P. lvii; l. 1 of LENVOY. The unmeaning word 'destruye,' as given in the
editions, should doubtless be corrected to 'deseruye,' or 'deservye'; as
said in P. Toynbee's Specimens of Old French; see pp. 482-4 of that work.
P. lxii. To the list of Chaucer's metres, add: 5_c_ = 9-line stanza, with
the rimes thrice repeated; as in Womanly Noblesse (vol. iv. p. xxv). Also:
13 = 6-line stanza, _ababaa_; in the Envoy to the same poem.
P. 12; l. 9. This displacement was first noticed (not by Bell, but) by
Tyrwhitt, in his _last_ note on the Canterbury Tales.
P. 28. To this list of early editions of separate works of Chaucer,
add:--_Boethius_, edited by Caxton, before 1479.
P. 35; l. 9. Alain Chartier, if born (as some say) as early as 1386, was
_fourteen_ years old at Chaucer's death. This does not affect the argument
or the result. (Make a similar correction in note 2 on p. 28).
P. 39; l. 8. _Delete the words_--A sixth is in MS. Harl. 7333, in the
British Museum.
P. 78; last line. _Read_ is well spelt, nor is either
P. 80; l. 6 from bottom, for _y-seen_ read _y-seyn_.
P. 95; l. 47. Insert a comma after 'oughte'
P. 98; l. 114. Omit the comma at the end of the line.
P. 126; l. 793. Delete the comma at the end of the line.
P. 127; l. 806. Delete the comma at the end of the line.
P. 135; l. 997. _For_ shall _read_ shal
P. 136; ll. 1015-6. Improve the punctuation thus:--
As whyt as lilie or rose in rys
Hir face, gentil and tretys.
P. 136; l. 1021. Delete the comma after 'yelowe'
P. 141; l. 1154. Delete the comma after 'seide'
P. 168; l. 1962. _For_ Bu -if _read_ But-if
P. 176; l. 2456. _For_ joy _read_ Ioy
P. 190; footnotes. _For_ 3320. _read_ 3319.
P. 195; l. 3643. _For_ [god it _read_ [god it]
P. 199; footnotes. _For_ 3852. _read_ 3851.
P. 201; l. 4035. For the comma substitute a semicolon.
P. 227; l. 5698. For the comma substitute a semicolon.
*P. 249; l. 4035. _For_ echerye _read_ trecherye
P. 253; l. 7324. _For_ weary _read_ wery
*P. 254; l. 7392. Thynne has 'falowe'; but it is clearly an error for
'falowe.'
P. 255; l. 7437. Supply a comma at the end of the line.
P. 258; l. 7665. Insert a comma after 'helle'
P. 269; l. 145. The stop at the end should be a comma.
*P. 270; l. 163. I now think that 'suffred' is correct; but that 'his
herte' has been wrongly put for 'him,' by confusion with l. 164. Moreover,
'pighte' must be an error for 'prighte'; see the Glossary. I am convinced
that the right reading is--
And suffred eek, that Longius him prighte,
Compare Cant. Tales, F 418.
P. 278; l. 49. _For_ aud _read_ and
P. 280; l. 105. Rather, read--Ne coude she no reed but oon;
P. 282; l. 145. _For_ Aud _read_ And
P. 296; footnotes, last line. For _fter_ read _after_
P. 301; l. 716. The comma should perhaps be a semicolon or a full stop.
P. 313; l. 1069. For 'Antilegius' read 'Antilogus,' which is a French form
of 'Antilochus.' See correction below (for p. 489).
P. 326; l. 74. Perhaps 'let' should be 'lete'
P. 330; l. 206. _For_ folke _read_ folk
P. 338; l. 91. _For_ Aud _read_ And
P. 340; l. 133. _For_ the _read_ thee
P. 358; ll. 653, 655, 659. _Perhaps read_ weye, seye, a-weye (_with final_
e).
P. 362; l. 76. The final stop should be a comma.
P. 374; ll. 243, 248. _For_ desteny _and_ ful _better forms are_ destinee
_and_ fulle.
P. 377; l. 328. _For_ furlong wey _read_ furlong-wey
P. 407; The lines are misnumbered.
P. 424; note to Rom. Rose, 923. See vol. v. 490.
P. 456; note to ll. 163, 164. It would be far better to read 'And suffred
eek, that Longius him prighte.' See correction above (to p. 270).
P. 489; note to l. 1069. But the best reading is certainly 'Antilogus'; for
this is the form actually used (in place of Archilochus) by Beno[^i]t de
St. More; who says (in l. 20969) that 'Antilogus fu filz Nestor.'
*P. 495; note to ll. 1318-9. See vol. v. 490.
P. 496; note to l. 7 (last line). _For_ Troil s _read_ Troilus.
P. 557; last line. 'I take this opportunity to remark that Mr. Skeat's
suggestion that _olde grisel_ = _old gray horse_, is supported not only by
Gower, Conf. Am. viii. ed. Pauli, iii. 356 (Olde grisel is no fole), but by
_bonny grisel_ = _bonny gray horse_ in the ballad of Johnie Armstrong, B,
st. 20; Child, III. 369.'--Prof. Kittredge, Obs. on Troilus, p. 424.
* * * * *
ERRATA IN VOLUME II.
P. xxiv; l. 6 from bottom. _For_ alienae _read_ alieni.
Pp. lvii-lx. These extracts from Guido may well be compared with Caxton's
Recuyell of The Historyes of Troye, as reprinted by O. Sommer, pp. 604,
608, 610, 613, 633.
P. lxxvi; l. 21. _For_ have been _read_ has been.
I. BOETHIUS.
*P. 8; Book I, met. 4. l. 8. _For_ thonder-light _a better reading is_
thonder-leit; see p. xliii, and the note (p. 422).
P. 26; Book II, met. 1. l. 11. _For_ proeueth _read_ proeveth
P. 29; Book II, pr. 3. l. 3. _Delete the comma after_ wherwith
*P. 48; Book II, pr. 7. l. 86. _For_ thas _read_ that
*P. 50; Book II, pr. 8. l. 17. _For_ windinge _read_ windy. See pp. xlii,
434.
P. 58; Book III, pr. 3. l. 68. _For_ all _read_ al
P. 62; l. 4. Counted as l. 10; it is really l. 9.
P. 63; Book III, pr. 5. l. 41. _For_ of _read_ _of_ (in italics).
*P. 74; Book III, pr. 10. l. 6. _For_ has _read_ hast
P. 122; Book IV, met. 6. l. 24. Delete the square brackets; see pp. xlii,
xliii.
*P. 124; Book IV, pr. 7. l. 61. MS. C _has_ confirme; _and_ MS. A _has_
conferme. But the right reading _must be_ conforme; _since the_ Latin _text
has_ conformandae. (Thynne _has_ conserue.)
II. TROILUS.
P. 159; Book I. 204. _For_ cast _read_ caste
P. 160; Book I. 217. The alternative reading is better; see note, p. 463.
P. 160; Book I. 239. _For_ yet _read_ yit (for the rhyme).
P. 162; Book I. 284. _For_ neuer _read_ never
P. 163; Book I. 309. _For_ Troylus _read_ Troilus
P. 163; Book I. 310. _For_ thyng _read_ thing
P. 165; Book I. 401. Alter ! to ?
P. 166; Book I. 406. _For_ thurst _read_ thurste
*P. 166; Book I. 420. _For_ deye _read_ dye (for the rhyme).
P. 171; Book I. 570. _For_ euery _read_ every
P. 172; Book I. 621. _For_ Troylus _read_ Troilus
P. 174; Book I. 656. _For_ y _read_ I
P. 174; Book I. 657. Insert ' at the beginning.
P. 175; Book I. 684. Delete the comma at the end of the line (C. Stoffel).
P. 177; Book I. 766. Alter ? to a comma (C.S.)
P. 181; Book I. 879. _For_ the _read_ thee
P. 187; Book I. 1074. _For_ tho _read_ the (suggested by C. Stoffel). H2.
Ed. the; Cl. H. tho (_which is remarkable_); Cm. _omits the line_.
P. 192; Book II. 113. Delete ' at the end.
P. 194; Book II. 170. Insert ' at the beginning.
P. 200; Book II. 358. Delete the comma at the end (C. Stoffel).
P. 205; Book II. 529. _For_ penaunc _read_ penaunce
P. 208; Book II. 628. _For_ swych _read_ swich
*P. 223; Book II. 1108. _Perhaps read_--And she to laughe, &c. 'Is it not
better to consider _and she to laughe_ as a case of _Infinitivus
historicus_? Cf. the French--"Ainsi dit le renard, _et flatteurs
d'applaudir_." Examples of the like are not unheard-of in M.E. M[:a]tzner
(III. 51) quotes from P. Plowman, A. 33: "And summe murthhes _to make_ as
munstrals cunne, And _gete_ gold with here gle." And from Layamon, II. 485:
"Ah Arthur com sone mid selere strengthe, and Scottes _to fleonne_ feor of
tham aerde." I have myself noted the following: Caxton, _Reynard the Fox_,
ed. Arber, 26: "(he) folewed me cryeng kylle and slee hym; I _to goo_ and
they after, and many moo cam after which alle thought to hurte me."'--C.
Stoffel.
If this be right, we may consider the auxiliary verb _gan_, or its
equivalent, as being understood before the expressed gerund. And we may as
well explain _to go_ in the same way, as found in the Legend of Good Women,
653. See further _To-ga_ (better _to ga_?) in my glossary to Barbour's
Bruce.
P. 229; Book II. 1294, Insert ' at the beginning.
P. 234; Book II. 1461. _For_ streyt _read_ streght, _as in_ MS. H.
P. 260; Book III. 522. _Delete the comma after_ laft
P. 260; Book III. 535. _For_ made _read_ mad _or_ maad
P. 261; Book III. 558. _For_ lengere _read_ lenger
P. 264; Book II. 662. _For_ thondre _read_ thonder
P. 266; Book III. 715. _For_ murthe _read_ mirthe
P. 271; Book III. 885. _For_ ringe _read_ ring
*P. 282; Book III. 1219. _For_ sweet _read_ swete
P. 312; Book IV. 318. _For_ to the peyne _read_ to my peyne
P. 318; Book IV. 502. Alter the final comma to a semicolon.
*P. 339; Book IV. 1171. _For_ wrong, and seyde _read_ wronge, and seyd
P. 344: Book IV. 1297. _For_ goinge _read_ going
*P. 344; Book IV. 1323. _For_ Thal _read_ That
*P. 390; Book V. 1039. _For_ she _read_ he. Cf. note, p. 499; and p. lx. l.
3.
P. 392; Book V. 1109; footnote. _For_ est _read_ the est
P. 405; Book V. 1494. _For_ told _read_ tolde
P. 424, l. 4. _For_ alienae _read_ alieni
P. 431; note to prose 5, 35; l. 3. _Delete_ for which I find _no_
authority. Peiper gives the reading _postremo_, but from one MS. only; most
MSS. give the reading _postremae_, as in Obbarius, who does not recognise
_postremo_.
P. 463; note to Book I. 217. _Add_--So too in Barbour's Bruce, i. 582: 'Bot
oft failyeis the fulis thocht.' Moreover, this very passage is quoted in
the Test. of Love, bk. ii. c. 8, thus:--'all daye faileth thinges that
fooles wende.'
P. 478; note to Book III. 674. See additional note at p. 506.
P. 479; note to Book III. 797. 'That _Horaste_ = _Orestes_, is evident from
Gower's Conf. Amantis, bk. iii (I. 352), where the forms _Horestes_ and
_Horest_ (elided) occur. Chaucer merely uses the name without intending an
allusion to the classical Orestes.'--G. L. Kittredge, Observations on the
language of Troilus, p. 347.
*P. 479, last line; and p. 480, first line. _For_ represents the Pers ...
_karn_, horn--_read_ represents the Arab, _z[=u]'lkarnayn_, lit.
two-horned; from Arab. _z[=u]_, lord of, _hence_, possessing, and the dual
form of _karn_, horn.
Notes to Book I. 948, 951; II. 36, 1335; III. 1219. Dr. K[:o]ppel has shewn
(in Archiv f[:u]r das Studium der neueren Sprachen, xc. 150) that Chaucer
here quotes from Alanus de Insulis, Liber Parabolarum (as printed in Migne,
Cursus Patrologicus, vol. ccx). The passages are:--
Fragrantes uicina rosas urtica perurit (col. 582).
Post noctem sperare diem, post nubila solem,
Post lacrimas risus laetitiamque potes (583).
Mille uiae ducunt homines per saecula Romam (591).
De nuce fit corylus, de glande fit ardua quercus (583).
Dulcius haerescunt humano mella palato,
Si malus hoc ipsum mordeat ante sapor (592).
P. 482; note to Book III. 1417. The explanation by G. Douglas, that
_Fortuna maior_ refers to Jupiter, is probably incorrect. It is far more
likely that Chaucer adopted the phrase from Dante, Purg. xix. 4. _Fortuna
maior_ was a figure in geomancy (cf. note to Cant. Tales, A 2045, in vol.
v. pp. 82, 83); and this figure was like four points (or stars) arranged in
a square, with two more points _below_ it (like a four of diamonds above a
two of the same).
_Fortuna Maior._ _Fortuna Minor._
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
The name was also bestowed upon a group of six stars that formed a figure
roughly resembling the same, though one of the stars (as it were at the top
left-hand corner) is a little out of place. These stars are described by
the commentators on Dante as being situate in the end of the sign of
Aquarius and the beginning of Pisces; and answer (sufficiently well) to the
stars now named [theta] Pegasi, [alpha] Aquarii, [pi] and [gamma] Aquarii,
and lastly, [zeta] and [eta] Aquarii. For help as to this matter I am
indebted to Sir R. Ball; also, for the reference to Dante (which Cary long
ago noticed), to Mr. A. J. Butler. See my letter in The Academy, Nov. 3,
1894, p. 352.
P. 488; note to Book IV. 506. _Delete_ Troilus speaks as if dead already.
The fact is, that _slowe_ is in the subjunctive mood. It means--'Well wot I
that, whilst I lived in peace, I would have given thee hire (i.e. a bribe),
ere thou shouldst have slain me.'
P. 498; note to Book IV. 744. _Add_--Cf. Dante, Purg. xxix. 132.
P. 498; note to Book V. 806. _Add_--Line 813 is due to Dares; see p. lxiv,
note.
P. 499; note to Book V. 1039; l. 6. _For_ the rest is Chaucer's addition
_read_ the statement that she gave it to Diomede is due to Beno[^i]t; see
p. lxii. Again, just below, _read_ The incidents of the 'broche' and
'pensel' are also due to the same; see p. lxii.
* * * * *
ERRATA IN VOLUME III.
P. xiii. l. 13. _For_ 1883 _read_ 1888.
P. xxxix. l. 8. The story of Hypsipyle is given at length in the Romance of
Jason, as told by Raoul le Fevre in French, about 1409. Perhaps he and
Chaucer drew the story from some common French source.
P. 11; l. 339. _Read_ Anoon, as we have yow receyved,
P. 13; l. 399. We learn, from Troilus, i. 654, that Chaucer supposed
'O[:e]none' to have four syllables. This restores the metre. Read:--And
Paris to O[:e]none;
P. 16; l. 503. _Read_ 'brighte,' _with a final_ e
P. 31; l. 1023. _For_ House _read_ Hous
P. 38; l. 1279. _For_ uncouthe _read_ uncouth
*P. 44; l. 1454-1456. Prof. Ker suggests to read:--
To make yow to long to dwelle,
These, of whiche I ginne rede.
Ther saugh I stonden, out of drede,
Upon, &c.
Thynne makes l. 1455 begin a new paragraph; and I have followed him; but
this is clearly wrong.
P. 62; l. 2098. Insert a comma at the end of the line.
P. 89; l. 284. _For_ Jerome _read_ Ierome
*P. 111; l. 741. _For_ as _read_ nas
P. 116; l. 876. Alter ? to !
P. 132; l. 1391. Alter the full stop to a semicolon.
P. 140; l. 1662. _For_ guerdon _read_ guerdoun
*P. 172; l. 2663. _For_ forlon; _read_ forlorn;
P. 173; l. 2685. _For_ death _read_ deeth
P. 182; line 1. _Insert a comma after_ hole
P. 251; note to l. 359. This pentameter is quoted at the end of Caxton's
Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye; where it is the 10th line of a set of
verses beginning--'Pergama flere volo, fata Danais data solo.' The editor
(O. Sommer) says (p. lxxxvii) that the lines belong to the Ilias of Simon
Ch[`e]vre d'Or. He says, further, that they are ascribed by Leyser to
Hildebert, Bishop of le Mans in 1097; but this seems to be wrong. The
verses quoted by Caxton do not appear in Leyser's collection, and do not
agree with the lines there assigned to Hildebert.
P. 261; note to H. F. 859. Compare Cant. Tales, F 726.
P. 266; note to H. F. 1119. 'To climbe hit,' i.e. to climb the rock; still
a common idiom.
P. 286; note to H. F. 2111. Compare Cant. Tales, A 2078. Perhaps read
'wanie.'
P. 334; note to L. 1896-8. I have given, at p. xxxix (footnote 2), Bech's
reference to Godfrey of Viterbo. The passage runs thus:--
'_De Ioue primo rege Atheniensi._
A Ioue nostrorum uenit gcneratio regum,
A Ioue principium recipit descriptio regum,
A Ioue _philosophi_ dogmata prima legunt.
Rex erat ex rege quondam patre natus Athenis,
Indeque quadriuii triuiique scientia uenit;
Legis et artis ibi rex ydioma dedit.'
P. 342; note to L. 2290. Cf. 'A lemman two so bright,' i.e. twice as
bright; and again, 'Nou am I two so light'; Li Beaus Desconus, ed. Kaluza,
789, 1446.
P. 344; fourth line from bottom. _Insert_ to _before_ the purpose
P. 347; l. 13 from bottom. For _saedu_ read _sadu_
P. 395; last line. See addition at p. 504.
P. 396; l. 24. _After_ Anglia, vii. 117, _add_: and see Appendix to the
same, p. 81.
*P. 422; l. 12. _For_ Poincy _read_ Coincy. See further in vol. v. 491.
A translation (by myself) of the poem there mentioned appeared in The
Academy, Sept. 15, 1894, p. 195; and a full account of it in the same,
Sept. 1, 1894, p. 153.
P. 423. _Add_--See also Dr. Jessopp's article on 'William of Norwich' in
The Nineteenth Century, May, 1893.
P. 433; l. 5 from bottom. _For_ because the next tale in the MS. is that
_read_ although the next tale in the MS. is not that
P. 437. The line marked 6665 should be marked 5665.
*P. 442; l. 17. _For_ caendo _read_ cercando. This emendation, suggested by
Prof. Ker, is clearly right. But 'caendo' is so spelt in the Chaucer
Society's copy.
Pp. 502, 503. See note in vol. v. 491.
* * * * *
ERRATA IN VOLUME IV.
P. xiv. Under the descriptions of MSS. 45-48, read:--One of these is
mentioned in Todd's Illustrations, p. 127, as being 'now [in 1810] in the
collection of John P. Kemble, Esq.' (Omit the rest).
P. xiv. Under the description of MS. 53, add:--later, it belonged to the
Duke of Roxburghe, and was bought for the Duke of Devonshire in 1812 (F.
Norgate). It is Urry's MS. no. xiv.
P. 14. A 467. Perhaps the final full stop should be a colon.
P. 15. Footnote to A 503. _For_ 'Hl. _alone_' _read_ 'Tyrwhitt.'
P. 19. A 636. _For_ Thanne _read_ Than
P. 37. A 1248. The final stop should be only a colon or a comma.
P. 41. A 1419. The final stop should be a semicolon.
P. 85. A 3016. _For_ eye _read_ y[:e]
*P. 110. A 3822. _For_ celle _read_ selle
P. 131. B 59, 60. _For_ eek _and_ seek _read_ eke _and_ seke
P. 133. B 115. Insert marks of quotation at the beginning and end of the
line.
P. 133. B 120, 121. Insert marks of quotation at the beginning of l. 120
and the end of l. 121.
P. 134; headline. _For_ T. 4454 _read_ T. 4554
P. 138. B 295. _For_ moevyng _read_ moeving
P. 146. B 540, 541, 547. _For_ cristen _read_ Cristen
P. 146. B 544. _For_ cristianitee _read_ Cristianitee
P. 151. B 724; and p. 155 (B 858). _For_ Constable _read_ constable
*P. 165. B 1178. _For_ be _read_ he
P. 168. B 1220. _For_ knoweliche _perhaps read_ knowleche (_as in_ Hl. Cp.
Ln.)
P. 187. B 1843. The final stop should be a semicolon.
P. 194. B 2043. Delete the stop after 'spicerye'
P. 202. B 2222. _For_ yevynge _read_ yevinge
P. 205. B 2253. _For_ owe _read_ ow
P. 207. B 2303. _For_ se _read_ see
P. 219; footnotes. _For_ 2251 _and_ 2252 _read_ 2551 and 2552
P. 222. B 2624. _For_ Iurisdicctioun _read_ Iurisdiccioun
P. 232; ll. 9, 10. _Delete the quotation-mark after_ certayne, _and insert
it after_ another
P. 232. B 2865. _For_ haue _read_ have
*P. 245. B 3230. _For_ my _read_ ny
P. 253. B 3490. _For_ warre _read_ werre
P. 259. B 3670. The final stop should be a comma
P. 271. B 4011. _For_ stope _a better reading is_ stape
*P. 275. B 4167. _For_ Than _read_ That
P. 285. B 4510. _For_ charitee _perhaps read_ Charitee
P. 285. B 4541. _For_ chide _read_ chyde
P. 299. C 291. _Either read_ advocas, _or note that the_ t _in_ advocats
_is silent_.
*P. 309. C 601. _For_ opinoun _read_ opinioun
P. 318. C 955. _For_ Thay _read_ They
P. 338; headline. _For_ 6225 _read_ 6235
P. 339; headline. _For_ 6226 _read_ 6236
P. 344. D 846. _For_ But if _read_ But-if
P. 345. D 859. _For_ All _read_ Al
*P. 348. 0955. _For_ which _read_ whiche (_dissyllabic_).
P. 349. D 1009. _For_ Plighte _read_ Plight
P. 354; footnotes, last line. _For_ 1205 _read_ 1204
P. 355. D 1219, 1227. _For_ Chese _and_ chese _read_ Chees _and_ chees
P. 363. D 1436. _For_ But if _read_ But-if
P. 384. D 2152. Delete the quotation-mark.
P. 398. E 290. E. _has_ set, _the present tense; this scans better than_
sette (_as in other_ MSS.).
P. 409. E 656. _For_ Left _read_ Lefte
P. 419. E 994. _For_ gouernance _read_ governance
P. 428. E 1304, 1306. Insert quotation-mark at the end of l. 1304, instead
of in l. 1306.
P. 438. E 1635. _For_ Sane _read_ Save
*P. 440. E 1718. _For_ minstraleye _read_ minstralcye
P. 444. E 1866. _Insert_ Auctor _opposite this line_.
P. 449. E 2058. _For_ scorpion _read_ scorpioun
P. 459. E 2416_. For_ bless _read_ blesse
*P. 461. F 20. But after all, it is best to follow E. Cp. Pt. Ln. Hl., but
with the form _pictous_ for _pitous_, as in Troil. iii. 1444, v. 451.
_Read_--And pi[:e]tous and Iust, alwey y-liche
*P. 462. F 56. _For_ Him _read_ Hem.
P. 468 (F 266); and p. 480 (F 661). _For_ Cambynskan _read_ Cambinskan
P. 474. F 462. _For_ sle _read_ slee
P. 505; footnotes. _For_ 1527 _read_ 1526
P. 520; footnotes; l. 2. Delete _wrongly_
Pp. 523, 525. G 446, 447, 454, 459, 535. _Read_ Cristen, Cristendom _for_
cristen, cristendom
P. 527. G 558, footnote. _The real reading of_ E. _is_--And vndernethe he
wered a surplys
P. 531. G 712. _For_ smert _read_ smerte
P. 543. G 1107. _For_ shall _read_ shal
*P. 545. 1171. _For_ torned _read_ terved. [_The reading in_ E. _is really_
terued = terved, i.e. stripped, flayed. _The reading_ torned _is a very
poor substitution for it_.]
P. 546. G 1224. Delete the final comma.
*P. 548. G 1274. _For_ torne, _read_ terve,
*P. 560. H 144. _For_ hept _read_ kept
*P. 608; l. 14. _For_ or harm _read_ of harm. [E. _has_ or, _wrongly_;
_rest_ of.]
P. 620; ll. 16, 17. _Delete the commas after_ receyven _and_ folk
P. 626; footnotes; last line. _For_ E. Seld. Ln. beauteis; _read_ E. Seld.
Ln. beautees;
P. 634. I 955. _For_ Daniel _read_ David. [N. B. MSS. E. Cm. Danyel; _the
rest_, Dauid. Probably Chaucer wrote 'Danyel' at first, and afterwards
corrected it, by the original, to 'Dauid.' Nevertheless, 'Daniel' is a good
reading.]
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ERRATA IN VOLUME V.
P. 73; l. 10 from bottom. _Delete the comma after_ Thornton
P. 144; l. 5 from bottom. Delete quotation-mark after _westi_.
P. 252; l. 4. _For_ Bruton's _read_ Burton's
At p. xxviii. of this volume will be found notes on C 60 and G 1171. At pp.
492-4 I give some additional notes on A 30, 179, 387, 467, 655, 1155, 1452,
2749, 3287, B 124, 1983, 3917, C 406, 570, D 110, 325, F 226, 233.
* * * * *
ERRATA IN VOL. VI.
P. 14. ARDAUNT. _For_ B 3. p 12. 10 _read_ B 3. m 12. 10.
P. 24. BEN; l. 3. _For_ Be, _1 pr. s._ am, 3. 588 _read_ Be, _inf._ be, 3.
588.
P. 25. BENDINGE; l. 3. _For_ horizontal _read_ diagonal
P. 54. CONNE; l. 6. For _1 pr. s._ read _1 pr. s. subj._
P. 63. DAMPNE; l. 4. In D 891, Dampned is not _pt. s._ but _pp._
P. 86. ENSELED; l. 1. _For_ T. _v._ 151 _read_ T. v. 151.
P. 92. FAIRE, _adv._, l. 3. _For_ honesty _read_ honestly
P. 103. FORS, l. 13. _For_ D 1254 _read_ D 1234.
P. 108. FUNERAL, l. 2. _Prefix_ A _to_ 2864.
P. 113. GODDESSE, l. 2. In his Observations on Troilus, p. 424, Prof.
Kittredge rejects the explanation of _goddes_ in 16. 15 by 'goddess'; and
argues that it is merely the pl. of _god_. 'All the seven gods (l. 3) may
be regarded as feeling the blasphemy against one of their number; or if
this will not do, _this goddes_ may perhaps refer to Cupid and Venus.' Of
course _this_ can mean 'these'; but, if the form be plural, I would rather
read _the goddes_, as in the rest, than _this goddes_ (or _goddis_), as in
MS. F.
P. 127. HIERDESSE, l. 2. Prof. Kittredge, in his Observations on Troilus,
p. 424, decisively rejects the interpretation of _hierdes_ in T. iii. 619
as 'female guardian' or 'protectress.' (This is Tyrwhitt's explanation, and
it seemed to me plausible.) However, Prof. Kittredge says--'_Hierdes_ =
"shepherds" or "herdsmen" (_bestes_ in the next verse carries out the
figure); the _influences of the stars_ are apostrophized as well as
_Fortune_, whence the plural, which may refer either (_a_) to _Fortune_ and
_influences_, or (_b_) to _influences_ alone. The latter interpretation is
perhaps better.'
P. 168 (last word on the page). _For_ Monthes, _read_ Monthe,
P. 170. MOST, _adv._ Add--Moste, _adv._ E 1714, F 1622.
P. 173. NEDDRE, l. 2. For _pt._ read _pl._
P. 189. PENCEL (2). Add the reference--T. v. 1043.
P. 195. PLOUNGEN, l. 2. _For_ B 2. p 2. 29 _read_ B 3. p 2. 29.
P. 284. WALET. _Prefix_ A _to_ 686 _and_ 681.
P. 288. WERCHE, l. 3. _For_ Wroghest _read_ Wroghtest
P. 300. WRIGHTE, _v._ _Read_ WRIGHTE, _s._
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GENERAL INDEX.
This Index is a general guide to the chief contents of the six volumes. For
the authors whom Chaucer most consulted, see also the Index at p. 381.
A. B. C., text of, i. 261;
discussion of, i. 58;
French original of, i. 59, 261;
Notes to, i. 452.
Accentuation, vi. xcii;
effect of accent, vi. lxvii.
Acknowledgments of obligations, vi. xviii.
Adam Scrivener; _see_ Wordes.
Addenda; (containing a note on Rom. Rose, 923; Book of the Duchesse,
1318; Sources of the Prioresses Tale; additional Notes on the
Canterbury Tales), v. 490;
other Addenda, ii. 506, iii. lxxx, v. xxviii, vi. 400.
Against Women Unconstaunt, i. 409;
discussion of, i. 88, v. xv;
Notes to, i. 565;
French original of, printed, vi. lix.
Albertano of Brescia, iii. 426-7, 458-9, 501.
Alchemy, discussed, iii. 493.
Alliteration, vi. xcvii.
Alphonsus of Lincoln, story of, iii. 421.
An Amorous Complaint, i. 411;
discussion of, i. 89;
Notes to, i. 566.
Anelida and Arcite, i. 365;
discussion of, i. 76;
Notes to, i. 529.
Assonances, i. 5; vi. lvi.
Astrolabe, a Treatise on the, iii. 175;
Critical Notes to, iii. 233;
Notes to, iii. 352;
remarks on, vi. xvi;
manuscripts of, iii. lvii;
sources of, iii. lxix;
editions of, iii. lxxi;
description of the Astrolabe, iii. lxxiv;
uses of the same, iii. lxxv;
stars marked upon the same, iii. lxxvii;
astrological notes, iii. lxxvii;
description of the Plates, iii. lxxix;
Plates, iii. lxxxi;
some Errata and Addenda, iii. lxxx.
Balade of Compleint, i. 415;
discussion of, i. 90; v. xvi;
Notes to, i. 568.
Balades, vi. lxii;
_and see_ Against Women Unconstaunt, Compleint to his Purse, Compleint
of Venus, Fortune, Gentilesse, Lack of Steadfastness, Rosemounde,
Truth, Womanly Noblesse; _also_ Legend of Good Women, l. 249 (iii.
83).
Bech, M., iii. xli.
Beno[^i]t de Sainte-More, ii. lxi.
Beryn, Tale of, iv. 384.
Boccaccio, G., his Teseide, i. 67; ii. l; iv. 391;
his Filostrato, ii. xlix;
De Claris Mulieribus, iii. xxvii;
De Genealogia Deorum, iii. xl;
De Casibus Virorum, iii. 427;
Il Filostrato compared with Chaucer's Troilus (book i), ii. 461; (book
ii), ii. 467; (book iii), ii. 474; (book iv), ii. 484; (book v),
ii. 494.
Boethius; Chaucer's translation of his Consolation of Philosophy, ii. 1;
discussion of, ii. vii;
Notes to, ii. 419;
other translations, ii. xiv;
date of, ii. xix;
mistranslations in, ii. xxiv;
compared with other works, ii. xxviii;
manuscripts of, ii. xxxvii;
editions of, ii. xliv;
the present edition of, ii. xlvi.
Book of the Duchesse, i. 277;
discussion of, i. 63;
Notes to, i. 462;
note to l. 1318, v. 490.
Bradshaw, H., i. 1, 5; vi. xx.
Buddhist original of the Pardoneres Tale, iii. 443.
Caesura, or medial Pause, vi. lxxxvi-xcii, xcvi.
Cambinskan, meaning of, iii. 471.
Canon of Chaucer's Works, discussed, i. 20; v. ix; vi. xii;
Lounsbury on the same, v. xv.
Canon's Yeoman's Tale, iv. 527;
Notes to, v. 414;
discussion of, iii. 492.
Canterbury Tales, text of, iv. 1;
introduction to, iv. vii; v. xvii;
manuscripts of, iv. vii;
editions of, iv. xv;
the present edition, iv. xvii;
numbering of the lines, iv. xxi;
types of MSS., iv. xxiv;
errata, iv. xxiv;
Text of, discussed, v. xvii;
the Harleian MS., v. xix (cf. iv. viii);
the Ellesmere MS., v. xx (cf. iv. xiii);
Stowe's edition, v. xxi;
spelling of, v. xxv;
Groups of the, discussed, iii. 371;
date of, iii. 372;
Prologue to, discussed, iii. 388;
remarks on, vi. xvi;
Sources of the, discussed, iii. 370;
Notes to, v. 1.
Caxton, testimony of, i. 27;
editions of Chaucer's works, i. 28;
edition of Ch. Boethius, ii. xliv;
edition of Troilus, ii. lxxiv.
Cecilia, Life of, iii. 486-492.
Chaucer, the name of, i. ix; v. 490;
Robert le ----, i. x;
Richard le ----, i. xi;
John ----, i. xlii, xiv;
Philippa ----, i. xx;
Thomas ----, i. xlviii;
Personal allusions in Chaucer's works, i. liii;
Allusions to, i. lvi;
List of his works, i. lxii;
Life of, i. ix;
his authorities, vi. xcviii.
Child, Prof. F. J., vi. xxi.
Ciento Novelle Antike, quoted, iii. 439.
Clerk's Tale, iv. 389;
Notes to, v. 342;
Source of, iii. 453.
Clouston, W. A., iii. 443, 447, 461, 478-9, 481-5, 501.
Coincy, Gautier de, iii. 422 (_misprinted_ Poincy); v. 491.
Complaint to my Lode-sterre (Lode-star), iv. xxix;
Notes to, iv. xxxi;
discussed, v. xvi.
Complaint to my Mortal Foe, iv. xxvii;
Notes to, iv. xxxi;
discussed, v. xvi.
Compleint Damours; _see_ An Amorous Complaint.
Compleint of Mars, i. 323;
discussion of, i. 64;
Notes to, i. 495.
Compleint of Venus, i. 400;
discussion of, i. 86;
French original of, i. 400;
Notes to, i. 559.
Compleint to his Lady, i. 360;
discussion of, i. 75;
Notes to, i. 526.
Compleint to his Purse, i, 405;
discussion of, i. 87;
Notes to, i. 562.
Compleynte unto Pit[`e], i. 272;
discussion of, i. 61;
Notes to, i. 457.
Contraction, vi. xcv.
Cook's Tale, iv. 126;
Notes to, v. 128;
discussed, iii. 399.
Corson, Prof. H., iii. liii.
Couplet; _see_ Heroic.
Criticism, aesthetic, vi. xxiii.
Dante's influence on the House of Fame, iii. vii.
Dares, cited by Guido, iii. lx.
Deschamps, Eustache, alludes to Chaucer, i. lvi.
Dialect of Chaucer, vi. xxiii.
Doctor's Tale; _see_ Physician's Tale.
E, long, pronunciation of, vi. xxxv.
Editions of Chaucer, i. 27.
Eilers, Dr., iii. 503.
Elision, vi. xciii.
Ellis, Dr. A. J., vi. xxi.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, quoted, iii. 496-7.
Envoys, vi. lix, lxii.
Errata, General List of, vi. 400;
some Errata in vol. i., i. lxiv;
some in vol. ii, ii. lxxix;
some in vol. iii., iii. xv, lxxx;
some in vol. iv., iv. xxiv, v. xxvii;
some in vol. v., v. xxviii;
some in vol. vi., vi. 400.
Falcon, story of the, iii. 477-9.
Former Age, The, i. 380;
discussion of, i. 78;
Notes to, i. 539.
Fortune, i. 383;
discussion of, i. 79;
Notes to, i. 542.
Francis, H. T., iii. 443.
Franklin's Tale, iv. 480, 483;
Notes to, v. 387;
Eastern source of, iii. 480.
Friar's Tale, iv. 357;
Notes to, v. 322;
source of, iii. 450.
Furnivall, Dr., i. 66; ii. xxxvii; iv. vii; vi. xviii; &c.
Gamelyn, Tale of, iv. 645;
Notes to, v. 477;
discussion of, iii. 399.
Gentilesse, i. 392;
discussion of, i. 82;
Notes to, i. 553.
Glossarial Index, vi. 1; cf. vi. x.
Glossary to Gamelyn, vi. 347.
Glossary to the Romaunt of the Rose (Fragments B and C), vi. 311.
Gorra, Egidio, sulla Legenda Trojana, ii. lxii.
Gower's story of Constance, iii. 413.
Grammatical Outlines, vi. lxiii.
Granson, Sir Otes de, i. 86;
Chaucer's Compleint of Venus compared with three of Granson's Balades,
i. 400.
Griselda, Story of, iii. 454.
Guido delle Colonne, his influence on 'Troilus,' ii. liii, lvi.
Hales, Prof. John W., iii. 457; vi. xxi.
Heroic Couplet, iii. xliv, 383; vi. lxii.
Hoccleve's allusions to Chaucer, i. lviii.
Horace quoted in Troilus, ii. lii.
House of Fame, iii. 1;
Notes to, iii. 243;
date of, iii. xi;
metre of, iii. xi;
imitations of, iii. xii;
emendations, iii. xiii; vi. 405.
Index, Glossarial, to Chaucer's Works, vi. 1;
Addenda to, vi. 310;
to Fragments B and C of the Romaunt, vi. 311;
to the Tale of Gamelyn, vi. 347.
Index of Authors quoted or referred to, vi. 381;
(A) quotations from the Bible, vi. 381;
(B) from other sources, vi. 384.
Index of Books referred to in the Notes, vi. 390.
Index of Proper Names, vi. 359.
Index to the subjects and words explained in the Notes, v. 495.
Innocent III., De Contemptu Mundi, quoted, iii. 407, 444; cf. 447.
Introduction, General, vi. ix;
(brief), i. vii.
Jakes de Basiu, iii. 452.
Kaluza, Dr. M., i. 2, 9, 15; vi. xi.
Kentish forms, vi. xxiii-v.
Khan, the Great, iii. 471-4.
Kittredge, Prof. G. L., iii. 479; vi. xi, xv, xxii.
Knightes Tale, iv. 26;
Notes to, v. 60;
sources of, iii. 389.
Koch, Dr. J., i. 64; iii. xv; vi. xix, xx.
K[:o]lbing, Dr. E., iii. 389 (note), 424-6, 485-90.
K[:o]ppell, Dr. E., ii. lxv, lxxx; iii. 407, 444, 447, 458-9, 485 (note),
501, 504; vi. xxi.
Lack of Steadfastness, i. 394;
discussion of, i. 84;
Notes to, i. 555.
Lange, Dr. M., i. 64; vi. xix.
Legend of Good Women, iii. 65;
Notes to, iii. 288;
date of, iii. xvi;
two forms of the Prologue, iii. xxi;
sources of, iii. xxxiv;
metre of, iii. xliii;
'clipped' lines in, iii. xliv;
manuscripts of, iii. xlvii;
editions, iii. li;
note to l. 1896, ii. lvi.
Lenvoy a Bukton, i. 398;
discussion of, i. 85;
Notes to, i. 558.
Lenvoy a Scogan, i. 396;
discussion of, i. 85;
Notes to, i. 556.
Libro di Novelle, quoted, iii. 440.
Life of Chaucer, i. ix.
Lincoln, Hugh of, iii. 421;
Alphonsus of, ibid.
Lindner, Dr. E., i. 2, 7; iii. 403.
Lollius, ii. liii, 464, 503; iii. 277.
Lorens, Fr[`e]re, Somme des Vices, iii. 502.
Lounsbury, Prof., iii. 396, 407-8, 453; vi. xix;
his attacks on Chaucer's rhymes considered, vi. 1;
his attacks on Gower considered, vi. li, lvii.
L[:u]cke, E., iii. 413-7.
Lydgate's allusions to Chaucer, i. lx;
his list of Chaucer's Works, i. 22;
allusions to the Knight's Tale, iii. 387;
Siege of Troye, ii. lv, lxvi.
Madasen[=a], story of, quoted, iii. 481-3.
Magic Horse, iii. 464-5, 475;
Magic Mirror, iii. 464, 466-7;
Magic Ring, iii. 469, 476.
Man of Law's Tale, iv. 130;
Notes to, v. 132;
source of, iii. 409;
sources of the Prologue to, iii. 407.
Manciple's Tale, iv. 555;
Notes to, v. 435;
source of, iii. 500.
Manly, J. M., vi. xxii, lxv.
Manuscript testimony to the genuineness of Chaucer's Works, i. 25.
Manuscripts; see vi. 399 for the complete list of references.
Marco Polo's Travels, iii. 463;
quoted, 471-4.
Marie de France, iii. 431-3.
Melibeus, Tale of, iv. 197;
Notes to, v. 201;
discussion of, iii. 426.
Merchant's Tale, iv. 426;
Notes to, v. 353;
source of, iii. 458.
Merciless Beauty, i. 387;
discussion of, i. 80; vi. xiii;
Notes to, i. 548.
Metres, i. lxii; vi. lviii;
Metre of the House of Fame, iii. xi;
Metre of the Legend, iii. xliii;
'Clipped' lines, iii. xlv.
Miller's Tale, iv. 89;
Notes to, v. 95;
source of, iii. 395;
cf. iii. 504.
Minor Poems, discussed, i. 20; vi. xii;
text of, i. 261;
Notes to, i. 452.
Monk's Tale, iv. 241;
Notes to, v. 224;
discussion of, iii. 427.
Morlinus, Novellae of, quoted, iii. 442.
Morris, Dr. R., i. 46; ii. xlii, lxxvi; iii. liii, 443; iv. i, xvi; v.
xix, xxvi, 1; vi. xxii;
his edition of Chaucer, i. 46.
Nun's Priest's Tale, iv. 269;
Notes to, v. 247;
discussion of, iii. 431.
O, long, pronunciation of, vi. xxxi.
Ovid's influence on the House of Fame, iii. ix.
Pardoner's Tale, iv. 301;
Notes to, v. 269;
sources of, iii. 438, 439.
Parlement of Foules, i. 335;
discussion of, i. 66;
Italian original of part of, i. 68;
Notes to, i. 505.
Parson's Tale, iv. 567;
Notes to, v. 444;
source of, iii. 502.
Phonetics, study of, vi. xxi.
Physician's Tale, iv. 290;
Notes to, v. 260;
sources of, iii. 435.
Piaget, Dr., vi. xix.
Prioress's Tale, iv. 180;
Notes to, v. 173;
sources of, iii. 421;
v. 491.
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, iv. 1;
Notes to, v. 1;
discussed, iii. 388.
Pronunciation, vi. xxv.
'Proverbs,' i. 407;
discussion of, i. 88;
Notes to, i. 564.
Proverbs, list of, ii. lxxviii; v. 508.
Rambeau, A., iii. vii; vi. xx.
Reeve's Tale, iv. 112;
Notes to, v. 112;
sources of, iii. 396.
Rime, peculiarities of, vi. xlvii;
Rimes involving long and short _o_, vi. xxxi;
Rimes involving long _e_, vi. xxxv;
Rimes involving repetitions, vi. xlix;
Rimes that have been misunderstood, vi. l;
Rimes in _-y_ and _-y-e_, i. 5, 6, 8; vi. lvii.
Romaunt of the Rose, i. 93;
Fragment B, i. 164;
Fragment C, i. 229;
discussed, i. 1; vi. xi;
French text of, i. 16;
part of the French text printed, i. 93;
Notes to, i. 417;
note to l. 923, v. 490.
Rosemounde, Balade to, i. 389;
discussion of, i. 81;
Notes to, i. 549.
Rossetti, W. M., ii. xlix, 461.
Roundels, i. 80, 524; vi. lxi.
Rules for reading Chaucer, v. xxiii; vi. lxiii.
Scansion of English verse, vi. lxxxii.
Second Nun's Tale, iv. 509;
Notes to, v. 401;
sources of, iii. 485.
Shipman's Tale, iv. 165;
Notes to, v. 165;
discussed, iii. 420;
Prologue to, discussed, iii. 417.
Shirley, John, testimony of, i. 25.
Simon, H., iii. 504.
Sir Thopas, iv. 189;
Notes to, v. 182;
discussion of, iii. 423.
Speght's editions of Chaucer, i. 43.
Squire's Tale, iv. 461;
Notes to, v. 370;
source of, iii. 463.
Stanzas of eight lines, vi. lix;
of seven lines, vi. lix;
of ten lines, vi. lx;
of nine lines, vi. lxi;
others, vi. lxi.
Stedfastnesse; _see_ Lack.
Stewart, H. F., ii. x.
Stowe's edition examined, i. 31.
Sumnour's Tale, iv. 370;
Notes to, v. 330;
source of, iii. 452.
Sundby, Thor, iii. 426, 501.
Sweet, Dr. H., vi. xxi, xxvi (note), xxix, xxxii.
Syllables suppressed, vi. xciv.
Tawney, Prof. C. H., iii. 443;
quoted, 481-3.
Ten Brink, Prof. B., i. 62; iii. 412; vi. xxi, xxxviii, xlvii, lxiii, &c.
Terns, i. 495, 503; vi. lxii.
Terza Rima, i. 76; vi. lx.
Theatrum Chemicum, by Ashmole, iii. 493;
another work so named, iii. 498-9.
Thomson, Dr., History of Chemistry, quoted, iii. 500.
Thopas; _see_ Sir.
Thynne, W., his edition of Chaucer, ii. 28, 29;
of Boethius, ii. xlvi;
of Troilus, ii. lxxvi;
of the Romaunt, i. 11; cf. vi. xviii.
Trivet, N., iii. 409.
Troilus and Criseyde, ii. 153;
discussion of, ii. xlix;
sources of, ii. xlix;
compared with Le Roman de la Rose, ii. lxv;
compared with the Geste Historiale, ii. lxv;
compared with Lydgate's Siege of Troy, ii. lxvi;
manuscripts of, ii. lxvii;
notes on, in MS. Harl. 2392, ii. lxxii;
editions of, ii. lxxv;
the present edition, ii. lxxvi;
Proverbs in, ii. lxxviii.
Trophee, the name discussed, ii. liv; cf. v. 233.
Truth, i. 390;
discussion of, i. 82;
Notes to, i. 550.
Tyrwhitt, T., iii. 391-5, 409, 422-4, 446-7, 450, 460, 462-3, 485, 493;
iv. viii-x, xv; v. x, xviii; vi. xv, xxi, 1, &c.
Valerii Epistola ad Rufinum, iii. 447.
Verse, forms of, vi. lviii;
Verses of four accents, vi. lviii, xcvii.
Versification, vi. lxxxii.
Warton, T., quoted, iii. 450, 464-70.
Whewell, W., History of the Inductive Sciences, quoted, iii. 495-6.
Wife of Bath's Prologue, iv. 320;
Notes to, v. 291;
sources of, iii. 445.
Wife of Bath's Tale, iv. 345;
Notes to, v. 313;
source of, iii. 447.
Willert, Dr. H., iii. xiii; vi. xx.
William of Norwich, iii. 423.
Womanly Noblesse, a Balade by Chaucer, iv. xxv;
Notes to, iv. xxxi;
discussed, v. xvi.
Words between the Sumnour and the Friar, iv. 344.
Words of the Host, iv. 299;
Notes to, v. 264;
discussed, iii. 437.
Wordes unto Adam, i. 379;
discussion of, i. 78;
Notes to, i. 538.
Works of Chaucer, list of, i. lxii.
Wretched Engendring of Mankind, a lost poem by Chaucer, iii. 407.
Wright, T., iii. 409, 411, 446, 450-1, 460; iv. viii, xvi, xxi, 1, &c.;
v. xix; vi. xxi.
Zupitza, Dr. J., vi. xxi.
END OF VOL. VI.
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NOTES.
[1] There can be no harm in stating the simple fact, that a long and
intimate acquaintance, extending over many years, with the habits and
methods of the scribes of the fourteenth century, has made me almost as
familiar with the usual spelling of that period as I am with that of modern
English.
It is little more trouble to me to write a passage of Chaucer from
dictation than one from Tennyson. It takes me just a little longer, and
that is all. In Fragments B and C of the Romaunt, many fifteenth-century
spellings have been retained.
[2] See my paper on this subject, printed for the Chaucer Society. Prof.
Herford has drawn attention to an unlucky misprint in vol. i. p. 80, where
I speak of the pp. of the verb _to see_ as _y-seen_. Of course I meant
_y-seyn_; see the Glossarial Index. He further remarked, quite correctly,
that Chaucer never employs the form _seen_ or _y-seen_, nor ever rimes it
with words in _-een_. Yet this very form, unknown to Chaucer, occurs thrice
in Fragment B, viz. in ll. 3066, 4461, 5571; and in each case it rimes with
_been_. This is a strong hint to those who can appreciate it. A highly
characteristic word in Fragment B is _dool_, in the sense of 'grief'; so
also is _grete_, to weep. But I have no space here to continue the
argument. The form _sloo_, to slay, and other peculiarities suggest that
the original dialect of Fragment B was not pure Northumbrian, but
Lincolnshire or North East Midland.
[3] For example, l. 4690 of the Romaunt is called l. 4693 in Morris's
edition; whilst Book IV of Troilus begins, in the same edition, in the
wrong place.
[4] This is the real reason why it was necessary to retain the unauthorised
order of the Groups introduced by Dr. Furnivall (see vol. iii. p. 434). To
initiate yet another mode of reference would have caused much
inconvenience.
[5] The following are some of the more remarkable blunders in the old text.
196. _myscoueiting_. 274. _wo_ omitted; no sense. 379. _er_ omitted; no
sense. 442. _ay_ (for _shal_). 444. _grace_ (!); for _face_. 567. Two
syllables short. 773. _hem_ omitted. 1007. _And_ for _As was_; no sense.
1018. _wyntred_; no such word. 1058. _prile_ for _prikke_; there is no such
word. 1089. _durst_; for _thurte_. 1187. _sarlynysh_ (!). 1201.
_gousfaucoun_ (!). 1281. _And she_ (!); for _Youthe_; corrected by Ten
Brink. 1313. _loreyes_; no such word. 1334. Mere nonsense. 1369. _Parys_
(!); for _paradise_. 1399. _it_ omitted. 1447. _garden_ (!); for _yerde
in_. 1453. _goodmesse_ (!); for _good mes_ (see 3462). 1591. _entrees_ (!);
for _estres_. 1608. _laughyng_ (!); for _loving_. 2285. _Farce_; for
_Fard_. 2294. _knowith_ (!); for _lauhwith_ or _laughith_. 2301.
_pleyneth_; for _pleyeth_. 2236. _londes_ (!); for _Loues_. 2650. _whider_
(!); for _weder_. 3337. _cherisaunce_; for _chevisaunce_. 3693-8. _Though_
for _Thought_; _rennyng_ for _rewing_; _come_ for _to me_; the merest
nonsense. 4322. _wente aboute_ (!); for _wende ha bought_; (corrected by
Kaluza). 4358. _in_ omitted; no sense. 4366. _charge_; for _change_. 4372.
MS. _yone wole_; Th. _you wol_; for _yon wal_. 4478. Imperfect. Many more
errors, of less consequence, might be added to the list.
[6] Roundel 1 has _sustene_, _kene_, _grene_, _quene_, _sene_. In
_sust[=e]ne_, the long _e_ is close (Ten Brink, Chaucers Sprache, p. 48);
the A.S. words are _c[=e]ne_, _gr[=e]ne_, _cw[=e]n(e)_, _ges[=e]ne_, all
with close e. Roundel 2 has _l[=e]ne_, _b[=e]ne_, _m[=e]ne_, _cl[=e]ne_,
all with A.S. _[=ae]_ or _[=e]a_. Also _m[=e]ne_, of French origin, with
open _[=e]_; Ten Brink, p. 49.
[7] There is no such word as _mena_. Critics seem to think that _In mena_
means 'in the middle'; but nothing can be more absurd than to decline a
French adjective like a Latin one.
[8] The 'slips' on which the glossaries to these works were written were
preserved, and have all been incorporated into the Glossarial Index in the
present volume.
[9] Treatise on the Astrolabe; Prologue, l. 43 (vol. iii. p. 176).
[10] I have been courteously provided with proof-sheets from time to time;
but my text of Troilus had already been prepared before I was able to make
any real use of them.
[11] Chiefly prepared by Miss Gunning and Miss Wilkinson; with liberal
additions by Mr. J. H. Hessels, who assisted me in the revision.
[12] The Glossaries to William of Palerne and Havelok were originally
prepared by Sir F. Madden, and very well done. We also owe to the same
editor a full and satisfactory glossary to Layamon.
[13] In A. 4172, _thair_ occurs, in avowed imitation of the Northern
dialect; yet in the line above we find _hem_ instead of _them_.
[14] For references, see the Glossary.
[15] We even find the double form _knittinge_, _knettinge_ in Boethius,
where there are no rimes to influence the word-form.
[16] Cf. _dint of thonder_, HF. 534; but, as _dint_ is not a riming word,
it may be put for _dent_.
[17] Hence, in D 51, we should read _senne_ (the Kentish form), to rime
with _brenne_.
[18] Here the standard English _thrust_ is really Southern. We also find
_thraste_, C 260; but this is from A.S. _thr[=ae]stan_.
[19] I also frequently employ ([`e][`e]) for open long _e_; and (['e]['e])
for close long _e_, especially in the Glossary. It is also often usual to
employ [e,] for the open _e_, and [o,] for the open _o_. Thus (ae) =
([`e][`e]) = ([e,][e,]); and (ee) = (['e]['e]).
[20] It is well known that the mod. E. _delight_ is falsely spelt. The M.E.
is _delyt_ (O.F. _delit_). It rimes with _parfyt_, _appetyt_, _whyt_ (see
Glossary); never with _right_ or _bright_.
[21] When the Anglo-French scribes discarded the A.S. symbol _ae_, they had
no certain symbol for the sound (ae) left. Hence, probably, the occasional
use of the form _thet_, to denote the A.S. _thaet_.
[22] Dr. Sweet gives the sound (ai), as in G. m_ei_n. But he adds: 'The
distinction between _ai_ and _ei_, as in _day_ and _wey_, was probably
still kept up in Chaucer's pronunciation, but the two diphthongs were
beginning to be confused, probably through the _a_ of _ai_ being modified
nearly to the sound of our vowel in _man_.' However, the rimes prove that
Chaucer never distinguishes between them at all; and I believe these
diphthongs had been confused much earlier. The Anglo-French scribes could
have known but little difference; since _ai_ had already become F. open _e_
in the later text of the Chanson de Roland. Again, Norse only exhibits
_ei_, not _ai_, so that our _raise_ was M.E. _reise_, also written _raise_
(Icel. _reisa_). Very significant is Chaucer's rime of _eyse_ with _reyse_,
D 2101. Nearly everywhere else, the mod. E. 'ease' is spelt _ese_, _eese_;
and the pronunciation was unquestionably ([`e][`e].z[*e]) = (ae.z[*e]), as
it rimes with _please_ and _appease_, words in which even the mod. E.
spelling with _ea_ shews that the long _e_ was once open. It follows that
_reyse_ was (rei.z[*e]) or even (r[`e][`e].z[*e]); certainly not
(rai.z[*e]). So again, I should say that the statement that the _a_ of _ai_
was 'modified nearly to the sound of our vowel in _man_' might have been
much more strongly asserted. In such a word as _day_, from A.S. _daeg_, the
_a_ was already (ae) at the first, and needed no modification at all. It
was already spelt _dei_ before A.D. 1200; see Specimens of O. English, ed.
Morris, Pt. i. p. 20, l. 79.
[23] In _sonne_, the _n_ is double; but not in _sone_.
[24] I use italic _y_ for the consonantal sound of _y_ in _ye_; because I
use (y) for the vowel _u_ in _Iuge_ (jy.g[*e]).
[25] I do not _here_ distinguish between primary and secondary accents. For
this distinction, see below (s. 98).
[26] Mod. E. _to soar_, O.F. _essorer_, Low Lat. _*exaurare_; so that the
long open _o_ is due to Lat. _au_.
[27] _Store_ has the _o_ from Lat. _au_; cf. _instaurare_. And _radevore_
is from F. _ras de Vaur_, with _o_ from _au_; correctly.
[28] I omit _dore_, door, riming with _underspore_; perhaps the _o_ was
here (u); cf. A.S. _duru_.
[29] Similarly, in Fragment A of the Romaunt, we find _r['o]te_ riming with
_sw['o]te_, 1025, 1661; and, on the other hand, _thr[`o]tes_ riming with
_harl[`o]tes_, _n[`o]tes_, 191, 507. By way of a glaring contrast, note the
rime _abood_ (ab[`o][`o]d) with _wood_ (w['o]['o]d) in Fragment B of the
Romaunt, l. 3159.
[30] Theoretical forms are denoted, in philology, by a prefixed asterisk.
[31] An apparent exception occurs in A.S. _c[=e]ace_, Anglian _c[=e]ce_,
M.E. _ch[=e]ke_, mod. E. _cheek_; with unstable _[=e]_. Its _[=e]a_ is
unusual, and due to the preceding c. The Du. form _kaak_ shews that its
vowel really answers to Germanic _[=ae]_, Goth. _[=e]_.
[32] As already noted above; p. xxiv.
[33] _Sp[=e]re_, with close long _e_, means 'sphere.' It makes all the
difference to the sense as well as to the rime.
[34] Whatever test be applied to Fragment B of the Romaunt, the result is
always the same, viz. always against its genuineness. Thus it has the rime
_cl[`e]ne_, _gr['e]ne_, 2127; and actually _s['e]['e]n_, _cl[`e][`e]n_(!),
2921; _cl[`e]n-e_ being always dissyllabic in Chaucer.
[35] _Nede_ once occurs as _need_, riming with _h[`e][`e]d_, head, B. Duch.
1253.
[36] For clear examples of a contrary practice, cf. the rimes _gr['e]ne_,
_cl[`e]ne_, Compl. of the Blk. Knight, 125; Flower and the Leaf, 289; Rom.
Rose (B), 2127; _w['e]ne_, _l[`e]ne_, Rom. Rose, 2683.
[37] _There_ once rimes with _dere_, adj., Legend, 1870. See note 39 below.
[38] _Were_ twice rimes with _dere_, adj., B. Duch. 773, Clk. Ta., E 882.
See note 39 below.
[39] _Dere_ usually has close _e_ (A.S. _d[=e]ore_); but it also rimes with
_there_, _were_; see notes 37, 38 above, and cf. A.S. _d[=y]re_.
[40] Or we may read _Mercuri'_, _mury'_, _mari'd_, _tari'd_, _beri'd_,
_to-scater'd_, _contr['a]ry'_, and so on.
[41] MSS. E. Hn. Ln. have _Dauit_, but it is a childish alteration; of
course _David_ is meant. Hl. Cp. Pt. have _Dauid_.
[42] Better written _ones_ only three lines below; nothing is gained by
making words rime _to the eye_.
[43] The frequent use of _o_ for short _u_ (cf. A.S. _duru_) by
Anglo-French scribes is a source of some trouble to the student.
[44] See vol. i. p. 93, French text, ll. 1-4; p. 94, ll. 19, 33; p. 95, l.
44; &c.
[45] I only cite the pages; all in vol. ii.
[46] All of the alleged exceptions are easily explained by remembering that
Gower habitually used Kentish forms. Thus the Kentish for _minde_ is
_mende_; it therefore rimes with _ende_, _wende_. The Kentish for _pit_ is
_pet_ (still in use), which rimes with _let_, _set_. The Kentish for
_hilles_ is _helles_, which rimes with _elles_. _Hid_ is Kent. _hed_,
riming with _fled_. _Sin_ is Kent. _senne_, riming with _kenne_. _Lesseth_
(Gow. iii. 12) should be _lisseth_, gives relief; cf. iii. 82, l. 19. It
does not appear that Gower is wrong in a single instance.
[47] Correctly printed _hedde_ in Chalmers' British Poets, ii. 67. Pauli's
edition is a sad snare.
[48] When writing in French, Gower rimes _loisir_ with _obeir_; in Balade
XXXIV (quoted by Warton).
[49] For _is wente_ read _his wente_, i.e. his path. This is all that is
needed to restore the sense. _Wente_ is a sb., not a pp.
[50] It occurs in no MS. but F.; and the writing in F. (in this passage) is
quite late, and of no authority.
[51] Quite 180, in my opinion, if not more; about 4 in every 100 lines.
Surely a large percentage.
[52] Chatterton added _two_ lines to Chaucer's stanza, one of the usual
length, and the second an Alexandrine. This ten-line stanza occurs in his
Battle of Hastings.
[53] Every student of Old French poetry of the fourteenth century must be
aware that none of Machault's Balades (in Tarb['e]'s edition) have envoys;
and that a large number were written, without envoys, by Froissart,
Eustache Deschamps, and Christine de Pisan. Besides, Chaucer introduces a
Balade into his Legend of Good Women, which could not have had an Envoy,
from the nature of the case; there was no one to address it to.
[54]
'Why will ye suffre than that I thus spille,
And for no maner gilt but my good wille?' vol. i. p. 364.
[55]
'For I am set on yow in swich manere
That, thogh ye never wil upon me rewe,' &c.; vol i. p. 363.
[56]
'So desespaired I am from alle blisse'; vol. i. p. 360.
[57] And yet again, but with repeated rimes, in his Womanly Noblesse; see
vol. iv. p. xxv.
[58] The word _virelai_ was taken to mean a lay with a veer or turn in it,
owing to a false etymology. The original word was, however, _vireli_, and
the true formula for it was very different. See P. Toynbee, Spec. of Old
French, pp. lix. 301. Cf. Ballades, Rondeaus, &c., edited by Gleeson White,
London, 1887; p. lxxvi.
[59] The references are, generally, to the Canterbury Tales; A 50 = Group A
l. 50.
[60] The forms within parenthesis express the pronunciation, according to
the symbols explained above. Cf. Ten Brink, _Chaucers Sprache_, s. 256.
[61] The Glossary has purposely been made very full in order to save
references here and elsewhere. Thus _ende_ occurs, finally, in A 15; in the
middle of B 481; also in A 197, where the final vowel is slight, but should
just be sounded.
[62] Sometimes written _-is_.
[63] But never _peyn_ for _peyne_, as in Rom. Rose, 2912, 3184, 3574, 3772,
4323, 4444, 4930; Flower and Leaf, 62.
[64] The prefix _y-_ is not counted as a syllable in this case; _y-shette_
is the same as _shette_.
[65] The Ellesmere MS. has _hise_ as the plural form; but it is
monosyllabic.
[66] In speaking to one person, _thou_ and _ye_ are frequently confounded.
Hence in the imperative, the singular and plural forms are frequently
confounded also.
[67] See the long list of 183 strong verbs, with an alphabetical index, in
Morris's Specimens of English, Part I; Introduction, p. lxix.
[68] But _amb_, _and_, _ang_ become _omb_, _ond_, _ong_; hence _clomb_, &c.
[69] Note the infin. _answer-y_, short for _answer-i-en_.
[70] The Glossary (s.v. Ben) gives 'Be, _1 pr. s._ am, 3. 588.' This is an
oversight; _be_ is here the infinitive = 'to be.'
[71] 'The air that is supplied for the production of the voice-vibrations
is capable of being used only in volumes or jets; or, if we attend to the
force used in producing them, in _pressures_.... The _law of
monopressures_, as it may be termed, is a law that operates, and must
operate, in the process of articulation. Speech is possible only in
monopressures.... One inhalation may suffice for several monopressures. One
full breath may suffice, for one who is an expert in husbanding the vocal
current, for 30, 60, or even 80 monopressures. Each of these, however, is a
vocalised jet of air, condensed and made vocal by a separate effort of the
will, just as each note, in a tune rapidly played on the pianoforte, is
produced by a special touch, however slight.'--From Accent and Rhythm,
explained by the law of Monopressures. Part I. Edinburgh, 1888; an
anonymous work, which deserves to be better known.
[72] These symbols are somewhat varied from those employed by the author of
'Accent and Rhythm,' whom I have quoted in the last note (p. lxxxiv.). I
owe to him the idea of using them.
[73] See, on this subject, the essay by M. Freudenberger, Ueber das Fehlen
des Auftakts in Chaucers heroischem Verse; Erlangen and Leipzig, 1889. I
may claim to have been the first to notice this peculiarity, viz. in the
Aldine edition of Chaucer, by Dr. Morris, 1866; i. 174.
[74] On the other hand, Lydgate did not shrink from these unmelodious
forms. We find form 13 in: 'Up he roos | maugre all' his foon'; Storie of
Thebes, 1149; in Spec. of Engl. pt. III. ed. Skeat.
[75] More strictly, as marked in the Ellesmere MS., the caesura really
falls earlier, so that 'Ginglen' stands alone; see below, s. 107.
[76] Ten Brink quotes many instances of elision, where there is no need for
it; thus the _-e_ in _wonne_ (A 59) comes at the caesura, and should be
kept.
[77] The _e_ is very light; cf. mod. E. _so stately_.
[78] Cf. _J'r['u]sal[`e]m_, A 463, D 495. Not _J['e]rwsal[`e]m_, with _w_
as a consonant, as Ten Brink suggests; such a pronunciation is practically
impossible.
[79] The _e_ in _p['a]rishe_ is suppressed, by the position of the accent
on the _a_ (s. 111); it is not really elided.
[80] It is worth while to place the two stanzas in juxta-position. I
accordingly quote them here.
Lady! thy bountee, thy magnificence,
Thy vertu, and thy grete humilitee
Ther may no tonge expresse in no science;
For som-tyme, lady, er men praye to thee,
Thou goost biforn of thy benignitee,
And getest us the light, thurgh thy preyere,
To gyden us un-to thy sone so dere. (B. 1664.)
Assembled is in thee magnificence
With mercy, goodnesse, and with swich pitee
That thou, that art the sonne of excellence,
Nat only helpest hem that preyen thee,
But ofte tyme, of thy benignitee,
Ful frely, er that men thyn help biseche,
Thou goost biforn, and art hir lyves leche. (G. 50.)
[81] Seneca is often quoted as the author of maxims or proverbial sayings,
really found in Publilius Syrus and Caecilius Balbus.
[82] St. Augustine's story found its way into the Gesta Romanorum.
* * * * *
Corrections made to the printed original
P. lxxx "The pp. results from the pt. t." corrected from "The pp. results
from the pp."
Ib. The Verb Substantive. "Pp. been, ben, be" corrected from "been, been,
be"
P. 24 (s.v. Begon) "Begon, Begoon" corrected from "Begoon, Begoon"
P. 92 (s.v. Faire) "honestly" corrected from "honesty"
P. 264 (s.v. Thruste) "pr. s. Thrusteth, thirsts, yearns" corrected from
"thirsts, yearns, Thrusteth"
P. 265 (s.v. Thurgh-darted) "transfixed" corrected from "trns fixed"