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Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury TalesChaucer, Geoffrey

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Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales

Name: Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer, Geoffrey

English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500

Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_).
[=a] signifies "a with macron"; [)a] "a with breve"; and so forth. [gh]
represents yogh, [*e] the schwa. A carat character is used to denote
superscription: a single character following the carat is superscripted
(example: XIII^e).

In this edition the two versions of the Prologue to the Legend are each
assembled for continuous reading. Skeat's commentary on the Astrolabe
(mentioned in the text as "Footnotes") has been similarly separated from
Chaucer's text.

Project Gutenberg has Volume VI of Skeat's edition, which contains a
Glossary covering the texts in this volume. See:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43097

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[Illustration: MS. FAIRFAX 16. LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN, 414-450

_Frontispiece***_]




THE COMPLETE WORKS

OF

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

_EDITED, FROM NUMEROUS MANUSCRIPTS_

BY THE

REV. WALTER W. SKEAT, M.A.

LITT.D., LL.D., D.C.L., PH.D.

ELRINGTON AND BOSWORTH PROFESSOR OF ANGLO-SAXON
AND FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

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THE HOUSE OF FAME: THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN
THE TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SOURCES OF THE CANTERBURY TALES

 'He made the book that hight the Hous of Fame.'
                                _Legend of Good Women_; 417.

 'Who-so that wol his large volume seke
  Cleped the Seintes Legende of Cupyde.'
                                _Canterbury Tales_; B 60.

 'His Astrelabie, longinge for his art.'
                                _Canterbury Tales_; A 3209.

SECOND EDITION

Oxford

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

M DCCCC

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Oxford

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

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CONTENTS.


                                                                       PAGE

  INTRODUCTION TO THE HOUSE OF FAME.--§ 1. Authorship. § 2. Influence
  of Dante. § 3. Testimony of Lydgate. § 4. Influence of Ovid.
  § 5. Date of the Poem. § 6. Metre. § 7. Imitations.
  § 8. Authorities. § 9. Some Emendations                               vii

  INTRODUCTION TO THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN.--§ 1. Date of the Poem.
  § 2. The Two Forms of the Prologue. § 3. Comparison of these.
  § 4. The Subject of the Legend. § 5. The Daisy. § 6. Agaton.
  § 7. Chief Sources of the Legend. § 8. The Prologue; Legends of
  (1) Cleopatra; (2) Thisbe; (3) Dido; (4) Hypsipyle and Medea;
  (5) Lucretia; (6) Ariadne; (7) Philomela; (8) Phyllis;
  (9) Hypermnestra. § 9. Gower's Confessio Amantis. § 10. Metre.
  § 11. 'Clipped' Lines. § 12. Description of the MSS.
  § 13. Description of the Printed Editions. § 14. Some Improvements
  in my Edition of 1889. § 15. Conclusion                               xvi

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