CHAUCER

THE MINOR POEMS

SKEAT

CHAUCER

THE MINOR POEMS

EDITED BY THE

REV. WALTER W. SKEAT, LITT. D.

LL.D. EDIN., M.A. OXON.

Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
in the University of Cambridge

'He made the book that hight the Hous of Fame,
And eek the Deeth of Blaunche the Duchesse,
And the Parlament of Foules, as I gesse, . . .
And many an ympne for your halydayes,
That highten Balades, Roundels, Virelayes.'

Legend of Good Women, 417-423

Oxford

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

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CONTENTS.

PAGE

INTRODUCTION

TESTIMONY OF CHAUCER REGARDING HIS WORKS

LYDGATE'S LIST OF CHAUCER'S POEMS.

DISCUSSION OF THE POEMS IN PART I, OF THE EDITION OF
1561.

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DISCUSSION OF THE POEMS IN PART II. OF THE EDITION OF