(18. S.)

Soth is pat god ne granteth no pitee
With oute pee. for god of his goodnesse
fforyiveth noon but it like vn to pee
He hath pee maked vicair & maistresse
Of al þe world. and eek gouernowresse
Of heuene. and he represseth his iustise.
After þi wil. and perfore in witnesse
He hath pee corowned in so rial wise

(19. T.)

Temple deuout' per god hath his woninge
ffro which pese misbileeued depriued been
To you my soule penitent' j bringe
Resceyue me. I can no ferpere fleen

With thornes venymous O heuene queen

ffor which pe eerpe acursed was ful yore.
I am wounded as ye may wel seen
þat' j am lost' almost' it' smert' so sore

(20. V.)

Virgine pat art' so noble of apparaile

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148

152

243. ACD Et pour; B Eut.-244. A rogeur y descendi.—247. From C; A son sanc fu despendu; B, one step farther, son corps fut despendu. 248. A Se ci.-255. A obeisant o pere.-256. A engnel.—257. A Et endurant.-260. B scay que; A se paire; BD ce pere.-262. A mi apere.-263. A aveire.-267. A Sen toy.

(21. X = Ch.)

Xpe1 pi sone pat in þis world alighte
Vp on pe cros to suffre his passioun

And eek suffred pat longius his herte pighte
And made his herte blood to renne adoun
And al was his for my saluacioun
And j to him am fals and eek vnkynde
And yit he wole not my dampnacioun
þis thanke j yow socour of al mankynde

Ysaac

(22. Y.)

Isaac was figure of his deth certeyn þat so fer forth his fader wolde obeye þat him ne rouhte no thing to be slayn Riht' soo pi sone lust as a lamb to deye Now ladi ful of merci j yow preye Sithe he his merci mesured so large.

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172

Be not skant'. for alle we singe & seye ye

277. A tout veü.-285. C' pas son.-289. AB que je ne.-290. A merci je.-292. A je nay mie.-297. From C; A Vierge tu ne me failles mie; B Tu ne me failles donc m.-299. A heritablement. Here, as in other verses (220, 286, 290), the e of the preceding monosyllabic word is elided.

Editor in Chief:-F. J. FURNIVALL, St George's Square, Primrose Hill, London, N.W. Hon. Sec.-A. G. SNELGROVE, Esq., London Hospital, London, E.

To do honour to CHAUCER, and to let the lovers and students of him see how far the best unprinted Manuscripts of his works differ from the printed texts, this Society is founded. There are many questions of metre, pronunciation, orthography, and etymology yet to be settled, for which more prints of Manuscripts are wanted, and it is hardly too much to say that every line of Chaucer contains points that need reconsideration. The founder's proposal is to begin with The Canterbury Tales, and give of them (in parallel columns in Royal 4to) six of the best unprinted Manuscripts known, and to add in another quarto the six next best MSS if 300 Subscribers join the Society. Inasmuch also as the parallel arrangement will necessitate the alteration of the places of certain tales in some of the MSS, a print of each MS will be issued separately, and will follow the order of its original. The first six MSS to be printed are The Ellesmere (by leave of the Earl of Ellesmere). The Lansdowne (Brit. Mus.).

The Hengwrt (by leave of W. W. E. Wynne, Esq.).
The Corpus, Oxford.

The Cambridge Univ. Libr., MS Gg. 4. 27.

The Petworth (by leave of Lord Leconfield).

To secure the fidelity and uniform treatment of the texts, Mr F. J. Furnival will read all with their MSS.

The Society's publications are issued in two Series, of which the first contains the different texts of Chaucer's works, and the Second such originals of, and essays on these as can be procured, with other illustrative treatises, and Supplementary Tales. The Society's issue for 1868 is, in the First Series,

I. The Prologue and Knight's Tale, of the Canterbury Tales, in 6 parallel Texts (from the 6 MSS named below), together with Tables, showing the Groups of the Tales, and their varying order in 38 MSS of the Tales, and in the old printed editions, and also Specimens from several MSS of the "Moveable Prologues" of the Canterbury Tales,-The Shipman's Prologue, and Franklin's Prologue,-when moved from their right places, and of the Substitutes for them.

II. The Prologue and Knight's Tale from the Ellesmere MS.

III. 29
IV 22

Hengwrt
Cambridge
Corpus

154
Gg. 4. 27
Oxford

851

IX. 22 X. "" XI. XII. XIII.

Ellesmere MS.
Hengwrt
Cambridge
Corpus
Petworth
Lansdowne,,

(separate issues of the Texts forming the 6-Text, Part II, No. XIV.)

The issue for 1870 is, in the First Series,

XIV. The Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales, with an Appendix of the Spurious Tale of Gamelyn, in 6 parallel Texts.

The issue for 1871 is, in the First Series,

XV. The Man of Law's, Shipman's, and Prioress's Tales, with Chaucer's own Tale of Sir Thopas, in 6 parallel Texts from the MSS above named, and 10 coloured drawings of Tellers of Tales, after the originals in the Ellesmere MS. XVI. The Man of Law's Tale, from the Ellesmere MS.

XIX. The Shipman's, Prioress's, and Man of Law's Tales, from the Petworth MS. XX. The Man of Law's Tale, from the Lansdowne MS. (each with woodcuts of fourteen drawings of Tellers of Tales in the Ellesmere MS.) XXI. A Parallel-Text edition of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part I:-The Dethe

of Blaunche the Duchesse,' from Thynne's ed. of 1532, the Fairfax MS 16, and Tanner MS 346; the Compleynt to Pite,' 'the Parlament of Foules,' and the Compleynt of Mars,' each from six MSS.

XXII. Supplementary Parallel-Texts of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part I, containing "The Parlament of Foules,' from three MSS.

XXIII. Odd Texts of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part I, containing 1. two MS fragments of The Parlament of Foules; 2. the two differing versions of The Prologue to the Legende of Good Women,' arranged so as to show their differences; 3. an Appendix of Poems attributed to Chaucer, 1. The Balade of Pites by Chauciers;' II. 'The Cronycle made by Chaucer,' both from MSS written by Shirley.