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

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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1867-1879.

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