The issue for 1879, in the First Series, is, LVIII. A Parallel-Text edition of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part III, completing the Parallel-Text, and containing, 11. The Legend of Good Women from 5 MSS and Thynne's print; 12. Truth from 6 MSS; 13. The Compleynt of Venus from 6 MSS; 14. The Envoy to Scogan from 3 MSS; 15. Marriage, or The Envoy to Bukton, from 1 MS and Notary's and Thynne's prints; 16. Gentilesse from 6 MSS; 17. Proverbs from 3 MSS; 18. Stedfastness from 6 MSS; 19. Fortune from 6 MSS; 20. Chaucer to his empty Purse, from 6 MSS. The issue for 1880, in the First Series, is, LIX. Supplementary Parallel-Texts of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part II:-1a. The Parlament of Foules from 3 MSS; 2. The A B C from 6 MSS; 3. Anelida and Arcite from 6 MSS; 4. The Legend of Good Women, in whole or part from 4 MSS; 5. The Complaint of Mars from 3 MSS; 6. Truth from 6 MSS; 7. The Compleynt of Venus from 3 MSS; 8. Gentilesse from 3 MSS; 9. Lack of Stedfastness from Thynne's print and 2 MSS; 10. Fortune from 2 MSS and Caxton's print. LX. Odd-Texts of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part II, containing, 3. The A B C, from 2 MSS; 4. The House of Fame, from the Pepys MS, &c.; 5. The Legend of Good Women from 3 MSS; 6. The Dethe of Blaunche the Duchesse from I MS; 7. The Complaint to Pity from 2 MSS; 8. The Parlament of Fowles from 1 MS; 9. Truth from 3 MSS; 10. Envoy to Scogan from 1 MS; 11. Purse from 1 MS. LXI. A One-Text Print of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part II, containing, VI. Mother of God; VII. Anelida; VIII. The Former Age; IX. Adam Scrivener; X. The House of Fame; XI. Legende; XII. Truth; XIII. Venus; XIV. Scogan; XV. Marriage; XVI. Gentilesse; XVII. Proverbs; XVIII. Stedfastness; XIX. Fortune; XX, Purse. LXII. Autotype Specimens of the chief Chaucer MSS. Part III: 2 from Henry V's MS of the Troilus, when he was Prince of Wales (now Mr Bacon Frank's); 1 from Shirley's MS of the ABC at Sion Coll. The issue for 1881, in the First Series, will be chosen from, LXIII. The Six-Text, Part IX, with colord Lithographs of Tellers of Tales and 6 emblematical Figures from the Cambridge Univers. MS Gg. 4. 27; Forewords, Title-pages for the three volumes, &c.; and Prof. Hiram Corson's Index to the Subjects and Names of The Canterbury Tales. LXIV to LXIX. 6 Appendixes to the 6 MSS of the Six-Text, with Woodcuts and colord Lithographs of 6 Tellers of Tales and of 6 emblematical Figures from the Cambridge Univ. MS, Gg. 4. 27, &c., and colord Lithographs of the 23 Ellesmere MS Miniatures. The Hengwrt MS, Part VI, will contain The Canon's-Yeoman's Tale, from the Lichfield Cathedral MS. LXX. Part II of Mr W. M. Rossetti's Comparison of Chaucer's Troylus and Cryseyde with Boccaccio's Filostrato. [Ready LXXI. A Parallel-Text edition of Chaucer's Troilus from the Campsall MS, b. 1415 A.D. (written for Henry V when Prince of Wales), Harleian 2280, and Cambr. Univ. Libr. Gg. 4. 27. [Ready. Prof. Hiram Corson has also agreed to edit the Society's Chaucer Concordance. For 1882, Miss Isabel Marshall and Miss Lela Porter are making a Ryme-Index to Chaucer's Minor Poems. To their Subjects and Names, Prof. H. Corson is making an Index. For 1884, or 1885, Chaucer's Boece is ready for the First Series. Among the Texts and Essays, &c., preparing for the Chaucer Society are :— Early English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, by Alexander J. Ellis, Esq., F.R.S. Part V (to be ready in 1882 or 1883). Autotype Specimens of the chief Chaucer Manuscripts, by F. J. Furnivall, Pt IV. The Tale of Beryn, Part II. Introduction and Glossary, by Messrs Furnivall and W. G. Stone. Essays on Chaucer, his Words and Works, Part V: 13. Chaucer's Pardoner: his character illustrated by documents of his time, by Dr J. J. Jusserand. 14. Why the Romaunt of the Rose is not Chaucer's, by Prof. Skeat, M.A. 15. (Probably) Chaucer's Shipman, by P. Q. Karkeek, Esq., of Dartmouth. 16. Chaucer's Parson's Tale compared with Frère Lorens's Somme des Vices et des Vertus, by Herr H. Simon. Chaucer's Road to Canterbury, with Ogilby's Plan of it, 1675, and William Smith's Plan of the City of Canterbury in 1588; by the Rev. W. A. Scott Robertson, M.A., Hon. Sec. of the Kent Archæological Institute. Life-Records of Chaucer, Part III, The Household book of Isabella, wife of Prince Lionel, third son of Edward III, in which the name of GEOFFREY CHAUCER first occurs; edited from the unique MS in the Brit. Museum, by Edward A. Bond, Esq., Chief Librarian. Part IV, Other Enrolments and Documents from the Public Record Office, the City of London Town-Clerk's Office, &c., edited by Walford D. Selby, Esq., and F. J. Furnivall, Esq., M.A. 'A detaild Comparison of Chaucer's Knight's Tale with the Teseide of Boccaccio,' by HENRY WARD, Esq., of the MS Department of the British Museum. [At Press. I. The Dethe of Blaunche the Duchesse, (OTHERWISE CALLED "The Booke of the Duchesse," and after, “Chaucers Dreme.") (This is Chaucer's 2nd Poem. The Compleynte to Pite is his first, and should be read first. See my Trial-Forewords.) [Fairfax MS 16 (vellum, Bodl. Libr.), leaf 130.] ¶ The booke of the Duchesse. [Stowe's hand adds 'made by Geffrey Chaweyer at the request of the duke of lancastar: pitiously complaynynge the deathe of the sayd dutchesse / blanche ['] I [t is for t with a curl over it. ñ is for n.] Haue grete wonder / be this lyghte How that I lyve / for day ne nyghte I may nat slepe / wel nygh noght' I have so many / an ydel thoght That by my troutħe / I take no kepe Of noo thinge / how hyt cometh or gooth Ne me nys no thynge / leve nor looth Ioy or sorowe / wherso hyt be ffor I haue felynge in no thynge But as yt were a mased thynge 8 12 16 Hyt were to lyven in thys wyse ffor nature/wolde nat suffyse To noon ertherly / creature 20 [1 Bodl. 638 leaves ont lines 24-95. A leaf is out of the MS.] 24 Defaulte of slepe / and hevynesse Hath [sleyne] my spirite / of quyknesse That I haue loste / al lusty-hede So I not what is best too doo But men myght' axe me / why soo 28 ['I may not sleepe, and what me is [From here to line 96, the writing But nathles, whoe aske this is quite late.] (Where from?) 32 Leseth his asking trewly My seluen can not tell why The southe, but trewly as I gesse That I haue suffred this eight yeere And yet my boote is neuer the nere That will not be, mote nedes be lefte To rede, and driue the night away 36 [leaf 130, back] 40 44 48 |