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
Chaucer, Geoffrey
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
A _omits_ of _and_ degrees, _yet both are required_; BC _omit_ of 3 degrees
_altogether_.
49. til] tyl þat C; tho AB (_absurdly_).
50. saw] sey C; may AB; _see_ l. 28.
56. hir] his ABC. a] ABC _omit_.
57. _At the word_ houre _four of the best_ MSS. _break off_, viz. MSS.
ABCE, _although_ E _adds one more section, viz._ sect. 46; _others come to
a sudden end even sooner_, viz. MSS. DFGHK. _But_ MS. P _carries us on to
the end of_ sect. 43, _and supplies the words_--þu shalt do wel ynow, _as
in the old editions_.
§ 41. 7. betwixe] be M (_wrongly_); betwixe R; by-twyx L.
M _inserts_ & _before_ to þe altitude; _a mere slip_. For; _miswritten_ Fro
M.
8. thridde; _miswritten_ ridde M; þrydde R.
13. LM _wrongly place_ of _after_ the hey[gh]t _instead of before it_.
§ 42, l. 2. see] _so in_ LR; _miswritten_ sette M; see sect. 41, l. 4.
3. _second_ I] _so_ L; y R; M _omits_.
8. M _omits_ as, above, _and_ is þe; L _has_ 12 passethe 6 the.
11. seest] _so in_ LR; _miswritten_ settest M.
12. 60] _so in_ LNR; sexe M.
13. M _omits from_ 10 is _to_ 10 feet, _which is supplied from_ NLPR.
14. For] _so in_ LNR; fro M.
15. _For_ 2, M _has_ 6; _so also_ R. _For_ 3, M _has_ 4.
16. _For_ 2, M _has_ 6; _for_ 6, M _has_ 2; _and the words_ and 3 is 4
p_ar_tyes of 12 _are omitted, though_ L _has_--& 4 is the thrid p_ar_tye of
12.
17. betwen R] by-twene L; bitwixe P; _miswritten_ be M; cf. sect. 41, 7.
19. thre R] 3 LP; _miswritten_ þe M.
§ 43. Rubric _in_ M, _Umbra Versa_; obviously a mistake for _Recta_. The
error is repeated in l. 1. LPR rightly read _Recta_.
3. M _omits_ 1, _which is supplied from_ LPR; see l. 5.
11. _After_ heythe (_as in_ M), LNR _add_ to thyn eye. _In place of lines_
9-11, P _has_--& so of all_e_ oþ_er_, &c.
§ 44. From MS. Digby 72 (N). Also in LMOR.
2. fro] _so in_ LO; for M.
3. into] _so in_ L; in M. for] _so in_ O; fro M.
6. [gh]eris M; LNO _omit_.
7. tabelis NO; table M; tables L.
8. where L; qwere O; wheþ_er_ N.
9. loke LM; N _omits_.
11, 2. NM _omit from_ or what _to_ or; _supplied from_ O, _which has_--or
qwat nombre þat euere it be, tyl þe tyme þat þ_o_u come to 20, or 40, or
60. _I have merely turned_ qwat _into_ what, _as in_ L, _which also has
this insertion_.
13. wreten N; _the alteration to_ wryte _is my own_; see l. 23.
under] _so in_ L; vndirneþe M.
14. to-geder] too-geder M; _miswritten_ to 2 degreis N; to the 2 degrees L.
15. hast M; _miswritten_ laste N; last L.
16. that (1); _supplied from_ M; LN _omit. For_ 1 (_as in_ M) LN _have_ 10.
21. to-gedere M; to the degreis N; 2 grees O; to degrees L.
22. that (2); _supplied from_ M; LNO _omit_.
lasse] passid LNO; M _omits_. Of course _passid_ is wrong, and equally of
course _lasse_ is right; see ll. 5, 6 above, and l. 25 below.
25. that] _so in_ L; þ_a_t MO; if h_i_t N.
27. entringe] e_n_tre M; entre L. ther] _so in_ M; _miswritten_ the [gh]ere
N; the [gh]eer L.
30. m_er_ydie LM; m_er_die N.
32. for LM; fro N (_twice_).
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