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ENGLISH CLASSICS

CHAUCER

MORRIS

REV. RICHARD MORRIS, LL.D.

Author of Historical Outlines of English Accidence'

Editor of Hampole's 'Pricke of Conscience,' 'Early English Alliterative Poens
'The Story of Genesis and Exodus,' 'The Ayenbite of Inwyt, Old English Homilies,' &c.

Member of the Council of the Philological Society

A NEW EDITION

WITH COLLATIONS AND ADDITIONAL NOTES

BY THE

REV. WALTER W. SKEAT, LITT.D.

'O maister dere and fader reverent,
My maister Chaucers, flour of eloquence!'

HOCCLEVE, De Regim. Princ. st. 281.

Oxford

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

M DCCC XCI

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