ENGLISH CLASSICS

CHAUCER

MORRIS

REV. RICHARD MORRIS, LL.D.

Author of Historical Outlines of English Accidence'
Editor of Hampolė's Pricke of Conscience,' 'Early English Alliterative Poeins
'The Story of Genesis and Exodus,' . The A yenbite 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

MDCCCXCI

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