CHAUCER

THE PROLOGUE, THE KNIGHTES TALE

THE NONNE PREESTES TALE

MORRIS

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CHAUCER

THE PROLOGUE; THE KNIGHTES TALE
-Knistes Tak

THE NONNE PREESTES TALE

FROM

THE CANTERBURY TALES

EDITED BY

REV. RICHARD MORRIS, LL.D.

Author of Historical Owlines of English Acciaence'

Editor of Hampole's Pricke of Conscience," Early English Alliterative Poems'
The Story of Genesis and Edus,' '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 LXXXIX

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