reader may know where the older character is used, its modern representatives y and gb have been printed in Italics. No other deviations from the original copy have been allowed; so that the reader has before him a text which, notwithstanding its manifest errors, is that of a MS. not later perhaps than the year of Chaucer's death. -1 The outlines of grammar and versification which form part of the present Introduction will enable the reader to perceive for himself in most instances where the copyist has blundered. It must be recollected. nies in the text are explained in the Notes and Glossary, which, it is hoped, will afford young students all the help that they may require in studying the present selection. R. M. TOTTENHAM, y See Knightes Tale, ll. 429, 656, where werrë and grove show that so and ful have been inserted by the old copyist. z I cannot in the least allow any necessity for Chaucer's poetry, especially the Canterbury Tales, being considered obsolete.' (Coleridge-Table Talk.) The Brus, by Barbour The Third Great Pestilence 1369 War re-commenced between France and England 1376 1377 Gregory I returns to Rome 1377 1378 Bible translated into English by Wycliffe. 1381 Death of Wycliffe Chaucer dismissed from his offices of Comptroller of Wool and Petty Customs 1386 1382 1384 |