be but that he ton nat wel endre yet hat he made lov de folle delyte xito feove you'm prepsinise of your name Be made the back that biste the hous of ffame and che the death of Blanche the Ducheffe And the plement of fontes as 9 geste and al the love of alamond and Arcite Ofahebes those the slovye yo knowen Arte And many an impne for your halpayee that highten Balades roundels melayes And for to Apeke of other Holmesse Be Gatt in proce translated (Bocer And maade the lyfe alp of feyne scale Be made also soon yo a grete while presence vpon the wandeleyne hym ongifte now to have the lesse peyne Be Gatt maade many abay and many attinge Now as ye be a god, and the a Ginge as your Alapte whilond gene of trace afle you this mand/vyste of your grace hat ye him never Giotem al Gro Give And he shal Avered to yow and that blive he shat never more agilten in the wyse But shal maken as ye mol demyst of women trewe in lobyng al hue lyfe adame quod Be it is so long agoon may ne wol nat weone your regnefte MS. FAIRFAX 16. LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN, 414-450 OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER EDITED, FROM NUMEROUS MANUSCRIPTS BY THE REV. WALTER W. SKEAT, M.A. ELRINGTON AND BOSWORTH PROFESSOR OF ANGLO-SAXON THE HOUSE OF FAME: THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN THE TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SOURCES OF THE CANTERBURY TALES He made the book that hight the Hous of Fame.' Legend of Good Women; 417. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO THE HOUSE OF FAME.—§ 1. Authorship. § 2. Influ- ence of Dante. § 3. Testimony of Lydgate. § 4. Influence of Ovid. § 5. Date of the Poem. § 6. Metre. § 7. Imitations. § 8. Authorities. § 9. Some Emendations INTRODUCTION TO THE LEgend of GooD WOMEN.-§ 1. Date of the Poem. 2. The Two Forms of the Prologue. § 3. Comparison of these. § 4. The Subject of the Legend. § 5. The Daisy. § 6. Agaton. § 7. Chief Sources of the Legend. § 8. The Prologue; Legends of (1) Cleopatra; (2) Thisbe; (3) Dido; (4) Hypsipyle and Medea; (5) Lucretia; (6) Ariadne; (7) Philo- mela; (8) Phyllis; (9) Hypermnestra. § 9. Gower's Confessio Amantis. § 10. Metre. § 11. Clipped' Lines. § 12. Descrip- tion of the MSS. § 13. Description of the Printed Editions. §14. Some Improvements in my Edition of 1889. § 15. Con- clusion INTRODUCTION To a Treatise on the AstrolabE.—§ 1. Description of the MSS. §§ 2-16. MSS. A., B., C., D., E., F., G., H., I., K., L., M., N., O., P. § 17. MSS. Q., R., S., T., U., W., X. § 18. Thynne's Edition. § 19. The two Classes of MSS. § 20. The last five Sections (spurious). § 21. Gap between Sections 40 and 41. § 22. Gap between Sections 43 and 44. § 23. Conclusion 40. Extant portion of the Treatise. § 25. Sources. § 26. Various Editions. 27. Works on the Subject. § 28. Description of the Astrolabe Planisphere. § 29. Uses of the Astrolabe Planisphere. PLATES ILLUSTRATING THE DESCRIPTION OF THE ASTROLAbe . PAGE vii xvi lvii |