Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 — Notes to the Canterbury TalesChaucer, Geoffrey
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Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 — Notes to the Canterbury Tales
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
At p. xxiv of vol. iv, a list of Errata is given, many of which are of
slight importance. Much use of this volume, for the purpose of
illustration, has brought to my notice a few more Errata, six of which,
here marked with an asterisk, are worth special notice.
P. 19. A 636. _For_ Thanne _read_ Than
P. 37. A 1248. The end-stop should be only a colon.
P. 41. A 1419. The end-stop should be only a semicolon.
P. 138. B 295. _For_ moevyng _read_ moeving
Pp. 151, 155. B 724, 858. _For_ Constable _read_ constable
* P. 165. B 1178. _For_ be _read_ he
P. 187. B 1843. The end-stop should (perhaps) be a semicolon.
P. 232. B 2865. _For_ haue _read_ have
P. 259. B 3670. The end-stop should be a comma.
* P. 275. B 4167. _For_ Than _read_ That
* P. 348. D 955. _For_ which _read_ whiche
P. 349. D 1009. _For_ Plighte _read_ Plight
P. 384. D 2152. _Dele 'at beginning._
* P. 398. E 290. MS. E _has_ set (= setteth, _pr. s._); _which scans
better than_ sette, _as in other_ MSS.
P. 409. E 656. _For_ Left _read_ Lefte [though the _e_ is elided].
* P. 462. F 56. _For_ Him _read_ Hem
P. 546. G 1224. _Dele_ the final comma.
* P. 608; end of l. 14. _For_ power or (_as in_ E.) _read_ power of (_as
in the rest_).
P. 620: ll. 16, 17. _Dele the commas after_ receyven _and_ folk
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VOL. V. ADDENDA, ETC.
P. 73; l. 10 from bottom. _Dele_ comma after Thornton.
P. 119; l. 1. _For_ l. 393 _read_ l. 3931.
P. 262; note to C 60. Cf. Ayenbite of Inwyt, p. 205:--'Ac the greate metes
and thet stronge wyn alighteth and norisseth lecherie, ase oyle other grese
alighteth and strengtheth thet uer' [i. e. the fire]. This passage occurs
quite close to that quoted in the note to A 4406. Probably Chaucer took
both of these from the French original of the Ayenbite. Cf. p. 447.
P. 450. The note to G 1171 has been accidentally omitted, but is important.
The reading should here be _terved_, not _torned_; and again, in G 1274,
read _terve_, not _torne_. The Ellesmere MS. is really right in both
places, though _terued_ appears as _terned_ in the Six-text edition. These
readings are duly noted in the Errata to vol. iv, at p. xxvi. The verb
_terve_ means 'to strip,' or 'to roll back' the edge of a cuff or the like.
The Bremen Wörterbuch has: '_um tarven, up tarven_, den Rand von einem
Kleidungstücke umschlagen, das innerste auswärts kehren.' Hence read
_tirueden_ in Havelok, 603; _teruen of_ in the Wars of Alexander, 4114;
_tyrue_ in Allit. Poems, ed. Morris, B. 630; and _tyruen_ in Gawain and the
Grene Knight, 1921.
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NOTES
TO THE
CANTERBURY TALES.
N.B. The spellings between marks of parenthesis indicate the
pronunciation, according to the scheme given in the Introduction.
References to other lines in the Canterbury Tales are denoted by the
Group and line. Thus 'B. 134' means Group B, l. 134, i. e. the first
line in the Man of Lawes Tale.
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