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
1. P. drem; _rest_ dreme. 8. _All have_ And why; _I omit_ why. 9, 10. F.
swevene, evene; Cx. Th. sweuen, euen. 11. Th. B. a fantome; P. a fauntom;
Cx. a fanton; F. affaintome; _after which, all needlessly insert_ why. 12.
F. Th. B. P. not; Cx. note (= noot). _Elide_ o _in_ so. 20. _All wrongly
insert_ is _before_ more. 24. B. of the; _rest_ of her; _I omit_ the (her).
26. F. B. stewe; P. stoe; Cx. stryf; Th. stryfe. 35. P. sweche; _rest_
suche, such. 45. F. B. forwote; _rest_ wote. 50. F. vnderstonde, _followed
by a metrical mark, indicating a pause: I add_ n. 58, 62. MSS. dreme (=
dreem). 63. _See_ note. 64. B. P. now; F. yow; _rest om._ 71. P. strem;
_rest_ streme (= streem); _so_ P. drem (_rest_ dreme) _in_ l. 80. MSS.
cometh (= com'th). 73. Cx. Th. clepe; F. clepeth. 77. F. That; _rest_ And.
78. Th. wol; P. wol; Cx. wyl; F. B. wolde. 85. F. B. stonde; Cx. Th.
stande; P. stond. Cx. alle; F. Th. al (_wrongly_). 88. _All_ pouerte. 89.
B. ech; F. eche. 100. _I supply_ that. 103. P. _om._ a. 109, 110. Cx. seyd,
abreyd; _the rest_ seyde (sayde), abreyde (abrayde). _Grammar requires_
seyd, abreyd; (abreyde _also occurs_). 117, 118. Cx. P. leonard, hard; F.
Th. B. leonarde, harde. P. _om._ of. 119. MSS. slept, slepte; _read_ sleep,
_as in_ l. 438. 122. F. Th. golde; Cx. P. gold; B. goold. 126. _All_
queynt. 127. F. B. olde; Th. golde; Cx. P. gold. F. sawgh. 131. Th. This;
_rest_ The. 132. F. sawgh. 134. Th. heed; B. hed; F. Cx. hede. Cx. Th. P.
parde; F. B. partee (!). 135. B. red; F. Th. rede; Cx. Rose garlondes
smellynge as a mede. 136. MSS. combe. B. hed; _rest_ hede. 139. Cx. P.
brown; F. broune. 140. Cx. down; F. dovne. 141. P. fond; F. Cx. B. fonde;
Th. founde. Cx. Th. wal; B. wall; F. walle. 143. F. B. say; _rest_ synge.
F. B. P. _om._ that. 146. F. B. Troy. 148. Cx. Th. P. Lauyne; F. B. Labyne.
152. Cx. Th. P. Troye; F. B. Troy; _see_ l. 155. 153. _All om._ That. F. B.
P. fals; Cx. fals vntrewe; Th. false vntrewe. 159. Cx. Th. kyng; F. B.
kynge. F. y-slayne; _rest_ slayn. 160. Th. Polytes; F. B. Polite. _From
this point I make no further note of obvious corrections in spelling._ 172.
Cx. P. Th. goddes; F. B. goddesse (_wrongly_) 173. F. B. -brende; _rest_
-brenned. 174. Cx. P. this; F. B. his. 184. F. P. That dede not I how she
was; B. That ded not I how she was; Cx. That rede note I how it was; Th.
That rede nat I howe that it was. _Read_ deed, _and insert_ but. 188. Cx.
Th. destyne; F. destanye. 193. Cx. Th. grauen; P. graven; F. grave; B.
graue. 196. F. B. Towardes. 199. P. Iubiter; _rest_ Iupiters; _read_
Iupiteres. 204. F. blowe; P. Cx. Th. blowen. 210. Th. herte; _rest_ hert.
220. F. _omits from_ lisse _to_ tempest _in next line; the rest are right_.
221, 222. F. B. stent, went; Cx. Th. stente, wente. 227. P. Cx. Th. Metten;
F. B. Mette. 235. F. P. comfort; _rest_ comforte. 237. P. folk; _rest_
folke; _but_ shulde _is here dissyllabic_. 242. F. tel; B. tell_e_; P. Cx.
Th. tellen. 257, 8. _All_ worde, lorde. 260. Th. the; _rest omit_.
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