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CHAUCERIAN

AND OTHER PIECES

EDITED, FROM NUMEROUS MANUSCRIPTS

BY THE REV.

WALTER W. SKEAT, Litt.D., D.C.L., LL.D., Ph.D.
ELRINGTON AND BOSWORTH PROFESSOR OF ANGLO-SAXON
AND FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

 

BEING A SUPPLEMENT TO THE
COMPLETE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER
(OXFORD, IN SIX VOLUMES, 1894)

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'And yit ye shul han better loos,

Right in dispyt of alle your foos,

Than worthy is; and that anoon.'

Hous of Fame, 1667-9.

Oxford

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

M DCCC XCVII


Oxford

PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
BY HORACE HART, M.A.,
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY


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CONTENTS.

PAGE
Introduction.§ 1. Works appended to those of Chaucer in variouseditions. § 2. Thynne's collection in 1532. A Praise of Women.The Lamentation of Mary Magdalen. The Remedy of Love. § 3.Other non-Chaucerian pieces. The Craft of Lovers. A Balade.The Ten Commandments of Love. The Nine Ladies Worthy.Virelai. The Judgement of Paris. A Balade pleasaunte. AnotherBalade. The Court of Love. § 4. Additions by Speght. Chaucer'sDream. Eight Goodly Questions. § 5. Editions and MSS. consulted.§ 6. Authorities for the pieces here printed. § 7. I.The Testament of Love. § 8. The acrostic found in it. Nameof the author. § 9. Fate of Thomas Usk. § 10. Idea of the work.§ 11. The author's plagiarisms from Chaucer. § 12. How he stolea passage from The House of Fame. § 13. Borrowings fromTroilus and Piers Plowman. § 14. The author's inaccuracies.§ 15. The title; and the meaning of Margaret. § 16. Plan ofthe work. § 17. Outline of Book I. § 18. Outline of Book II.§ 19. Outline of Book III. ...

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