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
Oxford
PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
BY HORACE HART, M.A.
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
CONTENTS.
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| 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 |
| Introduction to a Treatise on the Astrolabe.—§ 1. Description of the MSS. §§ 2-16. MSS. A., B., C., D., E., F., G., H., I., K., L., M., N., O., P. § 17. MSS. Q., R., S., T., U., W., X. § 18. Thynne's Edition. § 19. The two Classes of MSS. § 20. The last five Sections (spurious). § 21. Gap between Sections 40 and 41. § 22. Gap between Sections 43 and 44. § 23. Conclusion 40. § 24. Extant portion of the Treatise. § 25. Sources. § 26. Various Editions. § 27. Works on the Subject. § 28. Description of the Astrolabe Planisphere. § 29. Uses of the Astrolabe Planisphere. § 30. Stars marked on the Rete. § 31. Astrological Notes. | lvii |
| Plates illustrating the description of the Astrolabe | lxxxi |
| The Hous of Fame: Book I. | 1 |
| The Hous of Fame: Book II. | 16 |
| The Hous of Fame: Book III. | 33 |
| The Legend of Good Women: The Prologue | 65 |
| I. The Legend of Cleopatra | 106 |
| II. The Legend of Thisbe | 110 |
| III. The Legend of Dido | 117 |
| IV. The Legend of Hypsipyle and Medea | 131 |
| V. The Legend of Lucretia | 140 |
| VI. The Legend of Ariadne | 147 |
| VII. The Legend of Philomela | 158 |
| VIII. The Legend of Phyllis | 164 |
| IX. The Legend of Hypermnestra | 169 |
| A Treatise on the Astrolabe | 175 |
| Commentary on a Treatise on the Astrolabe | 175b |
| Critical Notes to a Treatise on the Astrolabe | 233 |
| Notes to the House of Fame | 243 |
| Notes to the Legend of Good Women | 288 |
| Notes to a Treatise on the Astrolabe | 352 |
| An Account of the Sources of the Canterbury Tales | 370 |
This work was published before January 1, 1927, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.