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THE

CANTERBURY TALES

OF

CHAUCER.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

AN ESSAY ON HIS LANGUAGE AND VERSIFICATION,
AND AN INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE,

TOGETHER WITH NOTES AND A GLOSSARY.

BY

THOMAS TYRWHITT, F.R.S.

With Memoir and Critical Dissertation.

THE TEXT EDITED BY CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

EDINBURGH:

WILLIAM P. NIMMO.

1868.

12426.43.25

VA

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

IN MEMORY OF

LIONEL DE JERSEY HARVARD

CLASS OF 1915

April 12, 1926
Prots)

34-393

8.21

(A) An Account of Former Editions of the Canterbury Tales
(B) A List of MSS. Collated, or Consulted, with the Abbreviations

xiv.

by which they are Cited

xxiv.

(c) An Abstract of the Historical Passages of the Life of Chaucer xxvi.
AN ESSAY ON THE LANGUAGE AND VERSIFICATION OF CHAUCER
AN INTROD-STORY DISCOURSE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES

XXXV.

xcvii.