This volume gathers Chaucer's The House of Fame, a dream-vision poem on fame and rumor, and The Legend of Good Women, a collection of tales about women of antiquity. It also includes The Treatise on the Astrolabe, a prose guide to the instrument, and Skeat's account of the Canterbury Tales sources. Worth hearing for Chaucer's range and medieval learning.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
Transcriber's note: In this edition the two versions of the Prologue to the Legend are each assembled for continuous reading. Page numbers {66a} etc. refer to the upper parts of the printed pages, {66b} etc. refer to the lower parts. Skeat's commentary on the Astrolabe (mentioned in the text as "Footnotes") has been similarly separated from Chaucer's text. Frontispiece MS. FĵƗǡżĵΎ 16. LŧƄŧƿŠ Ljż GLjLjŠ WLjƽŧƿ, 414-450 Frontispiece*** THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER EDITED, FROM NUMEROUS MANUSCRIPTS BY THE Rŧ΄. WALTER W. SKEAT, M.A. LƗǵǵ.D., LL.D., D.C.L., Pƒ.D. ELRINGTON AND BOSWORTH PROFESSOR OF ANGLO-SAXON AND FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE * * * 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. PAGE IƿǵǡLjŠǼŕǵƗLjƿ ǵLj ǵƒŧ HLjǼǪŧ Ljż Fĵƽŧ.—§ 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
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