THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER EDITED, FRom numerouS MANUSCRIPTS BY THE REV. WALTER W. SKEAT, M.A. ELRINGTON AND BOSWORTH PROFESSOR OF ANGLO-SAXON *** 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 Canterbury Tales; в бо. 'His Astrelabie, longinge for his art.' Canterbury Tales; A 3209. SECOND EDITION Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M DCCCC be but that he fan nat wel endite yet hath he made lande folle eelyte to forve you'm prepsinise of your name Be made the book that Gigte the Hone of flame and che the death of Blamehe the Ducheffe And the plement of foules as 9 seffe And at the love of palamon and Arate pfahebes, those the slovye yo knowen Arte And many an impne for your halyday co that highfiend balades roundels melayes And for to Apele of other Holmesse Be Gath in prve translated (Bocce and maade the lyfe also of feynt scale Be made also soon you a grete while Origenes Apon the aandeleyne hym ongifte now to have the lesse peyne Be Gatt maade many alay and many athinge allow as How do ye be a god, and ele a Gynge ad Jyone Alaste whilond grene of Irace afle you the mand/vyste of your stace hat ye him never Giotem al Gro live And he shal Averend to yow and that blive Be fal nener more agilten in this wyse But thal maken as ye wol dempse of women trewe in levyng al hue lyfe wher so ye wol of mayden oz of wyfe And forthren you, as muchse as he mysseyde Ozm the hose/o2 olles i treseyde #he god of love answerede Hne andon Badame quod he/it is so long agoon That If you knome, so charitable and trove What mener yet, fyn that the worlde was newve to me ne founde y better moon than yee If that ye wolde Jave my degree may ne wol nat werne your regnefte Al Gett in you, dooth wyth hyn, as you lifte al fozyève, with oneen longer Pace CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO THE HOUSE OF FAME.-§ 1. Authorship. § 2. Influ- ence of Dante. § 3. Testimony of Lydgate. § 4. Influence of Ovid. § 5. Date of the Poem. § 6. Metre. § 7. Imitations. § 8. Authorities. § 9. Some Emendations INTRODUCTION to the Legend of Good WOMEN.-§ 1. Date of the Poem. § 2. The Two Forms of the Prologue. § 3. Comparison of these. § 4. The Subject of the Legend. § 5. The Daisy. § 6. Agaton. § 7. Chief Sources of the Legend. § 8. The Prologue; Legends of (1) Cleopatra; (2) Thisbe; (3) Dido; (4) Hypsipyle and Medea; (5) Lucretia; (6) Ariadne; (7) Philo- mela; (8) Phyllis; (9) Hypermnestra. § 9. Gower's Confessio Amantis. § 10. Metre. § 11. 'Clipped' Lines. § 12. Descrip- tion of the MSS. § 13. Description of the Printed Editions. § 14. Some Improvements in my Edition of 1889. § 15. Con- clusion INTRODUCTION TO A TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE.—§ 1. Description of the MSS. §§ 2-16. MSS. A., B., C., D., E., F., G., H., I., K., L., M., N., O., P. § 17. MSS. Q., R., S., T., U., W., X. § 18. Thynne's Edition. § 19. The two Classes of MSS. § 20. The last five Sections (spurious). § 21. Gap between Sections 40 and 41. § 22. Gap between Sections 43 and 44. § 23. Conclusion 40. § 24. Extant portion of the Treatise. § 25. Sources. § 26. Various Editions. § 27. Works on the Subject. § 28. Description of the Astrolabe Planisphere. § 29. Uses of the Astrolabe Planisphere. 116660 |