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
270. F.
vnknowe; _rest_ vnknowen. 278. Th. Or speche; _rest_ Or (F. Of!) for
speche; _read_ For speche. _Lines 280-2 3 are in_ Th. _only, which reads_
some; fayrest; lest; than. 285. Cx. Th. (_3rd_) or; F. B. P. _om._ 290. F.
B. therbe (= the herbe); P. Cx. Th. the herbe. 305. Cx. Th. one; P. on; F.
B. love. 309, 310. _All_ delyte, profyte. 313. _For_ mette, Cx. Th. _have_
mette dremyng (!). 314. F. auttour = auctour. 315. F. he; _the rest_ she.
320. F. Th. wol; P. will_e_; Cx. wyl. 322. F. ha; P. B. haue; _rest om._
328. _All_ had. 329. _I insert_ I; _which all omit_. 332. P. hadde; _rest_
had. 334. Cx. telle; P. tellen; F. tel. 340. F. _omits this line; the rest
have it_. 347. F. B. al youre; Cx. Th. P. myn (_om._ al). 352. F. B. _om._
be. 353. Th. duren; F. B. dure. 358. Th. done; _rest omit_. 362. _All
insert_ But _before_ Al. 363. Cx. Th. P. Certeyn; F. B. Certeynly. 365. Cx.
goon; P. gon; F. agoon; B. agon. 366. in] _All_ in to. 370. _All_ Allas
(alas); _read_ Eneas. 371. F. B. As; _rest_ And. 375. Cx. Th. P. But; F. B.
And. 381. F. And nor hyt were to; Cx. And nere it were to; Th. And nere it
to; B. P. And ner it were to. Th. B. to endyte; F. Cx. tendyte. 387. P.
thenken; F. B. thynke; Cx. Th. thynken. 391. F. B. _om._ was. 402. Cx. Th.
P. And; F. B. _omit_. 410. Th. al; Cx. all; P. alle; F. B. _om._ 426. F. B.
_om._ as _and_ us. 428. F. B. _om._ greet. 429. B. Mercure; F. Mercur_e_;
_rest om._ 433. F. B. how that; _rest_ how. 434. Cx. P. to saylle; Th. for
to sayle; F. B. for to assayle. 446. Th. longe is for; F. B. is longe. Cx.
P. whyche no tonge can telle. 451. _For_ tharivaile, F. B. Th. _have_ the
aryvayle; Cx. the arryuaylle; P. the arevaille. 458. F. labina; _rest_
Lauyna. 468. Cx. P. seyn; _rest_ seen (sene). 473. F. B. grave; _rest_
grauen. 475. F. B. _omit_ in. 478. Th. sterynge any; _the rest_ any stiryng
(sterynge). 486. Cx. Th. P. was but of sonde (sande); F. B. nas but sonde.
491. _I insert_ for. Cx. Th. P. _insert_ I _after_ saw; _but it is in_ l.
489. 496. F. B. _omit_ lo. 504. F. B. _omit lines_ 504-507. COLOPHON AND
TITLE. _So in_ Cx.; _the rest omit them_.
BOOK II.
INCIPIT LIBER SECUNDUS.
_Proem._
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