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POETICAL WORKS

OF

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 III.

LONDON:
GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

1880.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS,

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROS8.

CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

PAGE

237

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . 5

TROYLUS AND CRYSEYDE.

_BOOK THE FIRST :........ 177

BOOK THE SECOND . . . . . . . . . 551

BOOK THE THIRD . . . . . . . . . 116

BOOK THE FOURTH . . . . . . . . . 180

BOOK THE FIFTH . . . . . . .

THE COMPLAYNT OF MARS AND VENUS . . . . 302

THE LEGENDE OF GOODE WOMEN , ,. . 317-

THE PROLOGE OF NIXE GOODE WOMEN . . . 319,

! INCIPIT LEGENDA CLEOPATRIE MARTIRIS, EGIPTI

REGINE . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

6 INCIPIT LEGENDA TESBE BABILON, MARTIRIS. 342

• INCIPIT LEGENDA DIDONIS, CARTHAGINIS REGINE 349

• INCIPIT LEGENDA YPSIPHILE ET MEDEE, MAR-

TIRIS . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

INCIPIT LEGENDA LUCRECIE ROME, MARTIRIS.

INCIPIT LEGENDA ADRIANE DE ATHENES . . 377

INCIPIT LEGENDA PHILOMENE . . . . . 386

INCIPIT LEGENDA PAILLIS. . . . . . . 391

INCIPIT LEGENDA YPERMYSTRE . . . . . 396.

370

THE COMPLEYNTE OF THE DETHE OF PITE . . . 404

BALLADE DE VISAGE SAUNS PEINTURE . . . . 410

A GOODLY BALLADE OF CHAUCER . . . . . 413

BALLADE SENT TO KING RICHARD . . . . . . 415