GEOFFREY CHAUCER

WITH POEMS FORMERLY PRINTED WITH HIS

OR ATTRIBUTED TO HIM,

EDITED, WITH A MEMOIR, BY

ROBERT BELL.

REVISED EDITION, IN FOUR VOLUMES

WITH A PRELIMINARY ESSAY BY

REV. W. W. SKEAT, M.A.

VOLUME I.

LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS

AND NEW YORK

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CONTENTS OF THE IRST VOLUME.

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PRELIMINARY ESSAY BY THE REV. W. W. SKEAT, M.A.

MEMOIR OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER

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The notes signed S., T., and W., are respectively from Speght's and Tyrwhitt's editions of Chaucer, and Mr. T. Wright's edition of the Harleian MS. (7334) of The Canterbury Tales. Those added to this edition are Included in brackets.