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Excerpt from Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 1: With Poems Formerly Printed With His or Attributed to Him
Of the he in t present one, the most remarkable and valuable is The Bomaunt of the Boss.' Chaucer tells as himself that he translated the French poem so called and there is extent, in a ms. At Glasgow, a considerable fragment ofa translation whichwas made in thefour tesnth century, and com in a dialect much more of don. The early editors, eominsedaomu this translation, naturally enough canola that it was Chaucer's, but there is, in lint, nothing to connect it with him externally. It is not marked as his in the and a considerable portion of it is deficient. So that it does not contain, s. The passage which Chaucer cepies in his 'fiootoures Tale' (see Tyrwhitt's note to Cant. Ta. Nor yet that which he copies in his story of Nero m the 'houkes Ne.' And when it counts wearea.
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