Chaucer's Works (ed. Skeat) Vol. V

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

NOTES TO THE CANTERBURY TALES

⁠'hit oghte thee to lyke;
For hard langage and hard matere
Is encombrous for to here
At ones; wost thou not wel this?'
⁠Hous of Fame; 860

SECOND EDITION

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CONTENTS

	Introduction
Group A.⁠	The Prologue
	The Knightes Tale
	The Milleres Tale
	The Reves Tale
	The Cokes Tale
Group B.	The Tale of the Man of Lawe
	The Shipmannes Tale
	The Prioresses Tale
	Chaucers Tale of Sir Thopas
	Chaucers Tale of Melibeus
	The Monkes Tale
	The Nonne Prestes Tale
Group C.	The Phisiciens Tale
Group C.	The Pardoners Tale
Group D.	The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe
	The Freres Tale
	The Somnours Tale
Group E.	The Clerkes Tale
Group E.	The Marchantes Tale
Group F.	The Squieres Tale
Group F.	The Frankeleyns Tale
Group G.	The Seconde Nonnes Tale
Group G.	The Chanouns Yemannes Tale
Group H.	The Maunciples Tale
Group I.	The Persones Tale
Appendix	The Tale of Gamelyn

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