# The complete works of John Gower, volume 2

Author: Gower, John, 1325?-1408; Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell), 1852-1915 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71162

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## Summary

We see in these examples, selected as fairly typical, that some of the variants have evidently the character of errors, while in other cases the difference of reading is due to an alternative version. The circumstances, however, of these two cases are not distinguishable, the errors are supported by as much authority as the rest, and it must be supposed that both have the same origin. If then we assume that such variations as we find (for example) in i. 3396, 3416, v. 30, 47, 82, 368, 2694, &c., are due to the author, as is almost certain, there can be no doubt that the form of text which is given by the group AJM in combination with the second and third recensions is the later of the two...

## Chapters

- [v. 6400 to the end he prints from a manuscript of the unrevised first](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-complete-works-of-john-gower-volume-2-71162/chapters/7/index.md)
- [xxxii. The story of the daughter of Paulus Emilius and her little dog](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-complete-works-of-john-gower-volume-2-71162/chapters/8/index.md)
- [iv. 2501-2684 comes after 2864, then follows 3049-3232, then 2865-3048,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-complete-works-of-john-gower-volume-2-71162/chapters/4/index.md)
- [v. 7303, where AdBT omit two lines necessary to the sense which](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-complete-works-of-john-gower-volume-2-71162/chapters/5/index.md)
- [v. 6280) AdBT is a group which is very frequently found in special](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-complete-works-of-john-gower-volume-2-71162/chapters/3/index.md)
- [vi. 183-283 (written in K by the third hand), there are at](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-complete-works-of-john-gower-volume-2-71162/chapters/6/index.md)
- [i. 2836 to H₁XERCLB₂ do AJMG, SAdBΔΛ, FWH₃](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-complete-works-of-john-gower-volume-2-71162/chapters/1/index.md)
- [v. 7701-7746, three of them are found in AdBTΛP₂ only, and are omitted](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-complete-works-of-john-gower-volume-2-71162/chapters/2/index.md)
- [iii. 367 tawh B](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-complete-works-of-john-gower-volume-2-71162/chapters/9/index.md)