Category: Poetry
1. Caunterburie Tales. (The Prologue begins on a page with the signature A 2, the first quire of six leaves not being numbered; the Knightes Tale begins on a page with the signature B ii., and marked Fol. i. The spurious Plowman's Tale precedes the Parson's Tale.)
The poem itself may be roughly divided into four parts. The first part, ll. 1-84, is mainly occupied with an epitome of the general contents of Cicero's Somnium Scipionis. The s...
8. c. 83, we find:--'In quolibet mense sunt duo dies, qui dicuntur_Ægyptiaci_, quorum unus est a principio mensis, alter a fine.' He goes on to shew how they are calculated, and says that, in January, the Egyptian days are the 1st, and the 7th...
7. xlvii. Longinus was a blind centurion, who pierced the side of Christ; whendrops of the Sacred Blood cured his infirmity. The day of St. Longinus is Mar. 15; see Chambers, Book of Days. The name _Longinus_ is most likely derived from [Greek: lonchê], a...
6. ll. 1675, 1683, 1685, 1691, 1702, whereas the other translator merely keepsIt is easily seen that ll. 1706-5810 are by a second and less skilful hand. This portion abounds with non-Chaucerian rimes, as explained in the Introduction, and is not by any m...
1. PART I. REPRINTED MATTER.1. Caunterburie Tales. (The Prologue begins on a page with the signature A 2, the first quire of six leaves not being numbered; the Knightes Tale begins on a page with the signa...
3. chapter 13 of Book I. of Lydgate's _Fall of Princes_.FF. (Ff. 1. 6) contains, besides five of the Minor Poems, many other pieces. One is a copy of _Pyramus and Thisbe_, being part of the Legend of Good Women. There are four extrac...
4. ll. 58, 60, 383); and Statius leads up to the point of the story where itis an even chance whether there will be peace or war. The Furies urge on the combatants to war; and at this crisis, the only power who can overrule them is _Pietas_, personified...
2. Part I. It would be a gross libel to ascribe this poem to Chaucer, as it isvery poor, and contains execrable rimes (such as _prysoun_, _bycome_; _apply-e_, _pyte_; _thee_, _dy-e_). But we may easily see that the title is likely to give rise to a miscon...