The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

Title

The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

Author

Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.

Publication

London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,

1868-1879.

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Contents

• omitted front matter
• omitted front matter
• GROUP A. FRAGMENT I.
  • § 1. GENERAL PROLOGUE.
  • Here bigynneth the knyghtes tale.
    • prologue
    • Incipit narracio.
    • Incipit pars secunda.
    • ¶ Incipit pars tercia & vltima
  • ¶ The prologe of the Milleres tale.
  • ¶ Here bigynneth the Millerys tale.
  • . ¶ The prologe / of the Reues tale
  • ¶ The prologe of the Cookes tale.
  • ¶ Here bigynneth the Cook his tale.
• GROUP D. FRAGMENT V.
  • § 1. WIFE OF BATH'S PREAMBLE.
  • ¶ Here bigynneth the tale / of the Wyf of Bathe .
  • ¶ The prologe of the ffreres tale
  • tale
  • ¶ The Prologe / of the Somnours tale.
  • ¶ Here bygynneth the Somnours tale.
  • ¶ Here bigynneth The Prologe of the Monkes ta[le].
  • ¶ Here bigynneth the Monkes tale.
    • prologue
    • [Lucifer.]
    • [Adam.]
    • [Sampson.]
    • [Hercules.]
    • [Nebuchadnezzar.]
    • [Belshazzar.]
    • [Zenobia.]
    • [Nero.]
    • [Holofernes.]
    • [Antiochus.]
    • [Alexander the Great.]
    • [Julius Cœsar.]
    • [Cresus.]
    • [Peter the Cruel, of Spain.]
    • [Peter of Cyprus.]
    • [Bernabo Visconti, of Milan.]
    • [Ugolino, Count of Pisa.]
  • ¶ This is the Prologe / of the Nonne Prees [tes] tale.
  • ¶ Here bigynneth the Nonnes preestes tale of the Cok/ and Hen / Chauntecler & Pertelote /
• GROUP H. FRAGMENT IX.
  • § 1. THE MANCIPLE'S HEAD-LINK.
  • ¶ Here bigynneth the Manciples tale / of the Crowe /
• GROUP B. (α. FRAGMENT II.)
  • § 1. MAN OF LAW'S HEAD-LINK.
  • ¶ Here bigynneth the tale.
    • [THE PROLOGUE.]
    • [THE TALE.]
    • [PART II.]
    • [PART III.]
  • ¶ Here bigynneth / the Squiers tale.
    • part - 1
    • ¶ Incipit pars secunda.
    • [Inci]pit tercia pars.
  • ¶ The prologe / of the Marchantes tale.
  • ¶ Here bigynneth / the Marchantes tale.
  • ¶ Here folwen the Wordes of the Worthy Hoost to the ffrankeleyn.
• GROUP F. FRAGMENT VII.
  • § 1. THE SQUIRE'S HEAD-LINK.
  • ¶ Here bigynneth the ffrankeleyns tale
    • [THE PROEM.]
    • [THE TALE.]
• GROUP G. FRAGMENT VIII.
  • § 1. THE SECOND NUN'S TALE.
• GROUP E. FRAGMENT VI.
  • § 1. THE CLERK'S HEAD-LINK.
  • ¶ Here bigynneth the tale.
    • part - 1
    • ¶ Incipit pars secunda.
    • Incipit/ pars tercia.
    • ¶ Incipit pars quarta.
    • ¶ Incipit pars qinta / ¶ The Cler[kes Tale]
    • [PART VI.]
  • ¶ Lenuoy de Chaucer.
  • APPENDIX TO GROUP E, § 2. [? Original, but rejected, End-Link to the Clerk's Tale, perhaps following l. 1162, with which the paraphrase of Petrarch's Latin ends, or l. 1169.]
• GROUP C. FRAGMENT IV.
  • § 1. THE DOCTOR'S TALE.
  • ¶ The myry talkyng of the Hoost to the Phisicien and the Pardoner.
  • ¶ Radix omnium malorum / est Cupiditas // Ad Thimotheum. 6o..
  • [H]ere bigynneth / the Pardoners tale.
• GROUP B. (ß. FRAGMENT III.)
  • § 4. THE SHIPMAN'S TALE.
  • ¶ Herke the myrie Wordes / of the Worthy Hoost.
  • ¶ The proheme of the Prioresse tale.
    • Domine dominus noster.
  • ¶ Here biggynneth the Prioresse tale of
    • ¶ Alma redemptoris mater
  • ¶ Bihoold the myrie talkyng/ of the Hoost/. to Chaucer.
  • ¶ Here bigynneth Chaucers tale of Thopas
    • [Fit I.]
    • [Fit II.]
  • ¶ Here the hoost/ stynteth Chaucer of his tale of Thopas / and biddeth hym / telle another tale.
  • ¶ Here bigynneth chaucers tale of Melibeus.
• GROUP I. FRAGMENT X.
  • § 1. THE BLANK-PARSON LINK.
  • analysis of the Parson's Tale (omitted)
  • ¶ Here bigynneth / the Persons tale.
    • part - 1
    • ¶ Et incipit secunda pars eiusdem . . .
    • ¶ De Septem peccatis mortalibus.
    • [De] Superbia
    • . ¶ Inuidia.
    • [The Remedy against Envy.]
    • ¶ Ira
    • Remedium contra iram.
    • .De accidia./
    • Remedium contra peccatum accidie
    • De Auaricia
    • Remedium contra peccatum auaricie
    • .De .Gula./
    • ¶ Remedium contra peccatum gule
    • .De luxuria./
    • Remedium contra peccatum Luxurie.
    • De confessione
    • De tercia parte penitencie
    • Hic capit Autor licenciam./
• table of contents to appendices
• APPENDIX TO GROUP A. [THE SPURIOUS TALE OF GAMELYN.]
• 2 THE NUN'S PRIEST'S END-LINK. [Incipit prologus fabule secunde monialis
• 3. THE MAN-OF-LAW—SHIPMAN LINK. The prolog of the squyers tale
• 4. [And here beginnithe þe Marchaundis tale /
• 5. and now begynneth the prologe of the Chanons yoman.
• [5b. THE PREAMBLE.]
• [5c. THE TALE.]
• omitted back matter