Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 4: The Canterbury Tales
It contains the curious coloured drawings of 2 3 of the Canterbury Pilgrims which have been reproduced for the Chaucer Society. At the end of the ms. Is a valuable copy of Chaucer's Balade of Truth see vol. I. At the beginning of the MS in a later hand, are written two poems printed in Todd's Illustrations of Gower, &c., pp. 29 5 - 309, which Todd absurdly attributed to Chaucer! They are of slight value or interest. It may suffice to say that, at the beginning of the former poem, we find few/vea' rimed with meved, and many of the lines in it are too long; e.g. - 'i supposed yt to have been some noxiall fantasy.' In the latter poem, a compliment to the family Of Vere, by rimes with azmeertij'e, and quarter with lzereafter; and the lines are Of similar over-length, e. G. Of whom prophesyes Of antiquite makyth mencion.'
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