Chaucer's Works-The Canterbury Tales Part 4

P. 271. B 4011. _For_ stope _a better reading is_ stape

P. 285. B 4510. _For_ charitee _perhaps read_ Charitee

P. 285. B 4541. _For_ chide _read_ chyde

P. 299. C 291. _Either read_ advocas, _or note that the_ t _in_ advocats _is silent_.

*P. 309. C 601. _For_ opinoun _read_ opinioun

P. 318. C 955. _For_ Thay _read_ They

P. 338. In the headline; _for_ 6225 _read_ 6235.

P. 339. In the headline; for 6226 _read_ 6236.

P. 344. D 846. _For_ But if _read_ But-if

P. 345. D 859. _For_ All _read_ Al

P. 354. Footnotes; last line. _For_ 1205 _read_ 1204

P. 355. D 1219, 1227. _For_ Chese _and_ chese _read_ Chees _and_ chees.

P. 363. D 1436. _For_ But if _read_ But-if

P. 387. D 2242. _Perhaps insert a comma after_ himself

P. 419. E 994. _For_ gouernance _read_ governance

P. 428. E 1304, 1306. Insert quotation-mark at the end of l. 1304, instead of the end of l. 1306.

P. 438. E 1635. _For_ Saue _read_ Save

P. 444. E 1866. _Insert_ Auctor _opposite this line_.

P. 449. E 2058. _For_ scorpion _read_ scorpioun; _as the last syllable is accented_.

P. 459. E 2418. _For_ bless _read_ blesse

P. 461. F 20. After all, the right reading probably is that given by E.

Cp. Pt. Ln. Hl., but with the form _pietous_ for _pitous_ as in Troilus, iii. 1444, and v. 451. Read--And pietous and Iust, alwey y-liche.

P. 468. F 266. _For_ Cambynskan _read_ Cambinskan. So also at p. 480, first line.

P. 474. F 462. _For_ sle _read_ slee

P. 505, footnotes. _For_ 1527 _read_ 1526

P. 527. G 558, footnote. _The real reading of_ E _is_--

And vndernethe he wered a surplys

P. 543. G 1107. _For_ shall _read_ shal

*P. 545. G 1171. _For_ torned _read_ terved. [_The reading in_ E is _really_ terued=terved, i.e. stripped, flayed. The _reading_ torned _is a poor subst.i.tution_.]

*P. 548. G 1274. _For_ torne, _read_ terve,

*P. 560. H 144. _For_ hept _read_ kept

P. 626. Footnotes; last line. _For_ E. Seld. Ln. beauteis; _read_ E.

Seld. Ln. beautees;

P. 634. I 955. _For_ Daniel, _read_ David. [N.B. MSS. E. Cm. Danyel; _the rest_, Dauid. Probably Chaucer wrote 'Daniel' at first, and afterwards corrected it (by the original) to 'David.' Nevertheless, 'Daniel' is a good reading.]

[xxv]

ADDITIONS

TO

'THE MINOR POEMS' IN VOL. I.

[Further researches have brought to light some more of Chaucer's Minor Poems. I first met with the excellent Balade on 'Womanly n.o.blesse' in MS.

Phillipps 9030 (now MS. Addit. 34360) on June 1, 1894; and on the following day I noticed in MS. Harl. 7578 (partly described in vol. i. p. 58) two Complaints that may perhaps be attributed to our author. As, from the nature of the case, they could not be included in Vol. i, they are inserted here.]

XXIV. WOMANLY n.o.bLESSE.

BALADE THAT CHAUCIER MADE.

So hath my herte caught in remembraunce Your beaute hool, and stedfast governaunce, Your vertues alle, and your hy n.o.blesse, That you to serve is set al my plesaunce; So wel me lykth your womanly contenaunce, 5 [xxvi]

Your fresshe fetures and your comlinesse, That, whyl I live, my herte to his maistresse, You hath ful chose, in trew perseveraunce, Never to chaunge, for no maner distresse.

From MS. Addit. 34360, fol. 21, back (with ascription by Shirley); hitherto unprinted. Rejected readings of the MS. are here given.

1. hert. 2. Yowre (_throughout_); hoole; stidefast. 3. al; hie.

4. yow; sette. 5. likith; _for_ womanly _perhaps read_ wyfly. 6: comlynesse. 7: whiles; myn hert; maystresse. 8: triev.

And sith I [you] shal do this observaunce 10 Al my lyf, withouten displesaunce, You for to serve with al my besinesse, [Taketh me, lady, in your obeisaunce,]