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CHAUCERIAN

AND OTHER PIECES

_EDITED, FROM NUMEROUS MANUSCRIPTS_

BY THE REV.

WALTER W. SKEAT, LITT.D., D.C.L., LL.D., PH.D.
ELRINGTON AND BOSWORTH PROFESSOR OF ANGLO-SAXON
AND FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE



BEING A SUPPLEMENT TO THE
COMPLETE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER
(OXFORD, IN SIX VOLUMES, 1894)

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 'And yit ye shul han better loos,
  Right in dispyt of alle your foos,
  Than worthy is; and that anoon.'
                      _Hous of Fame, 1667-9._

Oxford

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

M DCCC XCVII

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Oxford

PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
BY HORACE HART, M.A.,
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

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CONTENTS.

  INTRODUCTION.--Sec. 1. Works appended to those of Chaucer in various
  editions. Sec. 2. Thynne's collection in 1532. _A Praise of Women._
  _The Lamentation of Mary Magdalen._ _The Remedy of Love._ Sec. 3. Other
  non-Chaucerian pieces. _The Craft of Lovers._ _A Balade._ _The Ten
  Commandments of Love._ _The Nine Ladies Worthy._ _Virelai._ _The
  Judgement of Paris._ _A Balade pleasaunte._ _Another Balade._ _The
  Court of Love._ Sec. 4. Additions by Speght. _Chaucer's Dream._ _Eight
  Goodly Questions._ Sec. 5. Editions and MSS. consulted. Sec. 6.
  Authorities for the pieces here printed. Sec. 7. I. THE TESTAMENT OF
  LOVE. Sec. 8. The acrostic found in it. Name of the author. Sec. 9. Fate
  of Thomas Usk. Sec. 10. Idea of the work. Sec. 11. The author's
  plagiarisms from Chaucer. Sec. 12. How he stole a passage from The
  House of Fame. Sec. 13. Borrowings from Troilus and Piers Plowman.
  Sec. 14. The author's inaccuracies. Sec. 15. The title; and the meaning
  of Margaret. Sec. 16. Plan of the work. Sec. 17. Outline of Book I. Sec. 18.
  Outline of Book II. Sec. 19. Outline of Book III. Sec. 20. II. THE
  PLOWMANS TALE. Sec. 21. Never supposed to be Chaucer's. Sec. 22. Written
  by the author of The Ploughmans Crede. Sec. 23. III. JACK UPLAND. Sec. 24.
  Date, A.D. 1402. Sec. 25. Traces of two texts. Sec. 26. Not originally
  written in alliterative verse. Sec. 27. IV. THE PRAISE OF PEACE. By John
  Gower. Sec. 28. The Trentham MS. Sec. 29. Date, A.D. 1399. Sec. 30. V. THE
  LETTER OF CUPID. By Thomas Hoccleve. Sec. 31. VI. TWO BALADES. By Thomas
  Hoccleve. Sec. 32. VII. A MORAL BALADE. By Henry Scogan. Date, about
  1407. Sec. 33. The supper at the Vintry. Sec. 34. VIII. THE COMPLAINT OF
  THE BLACK KNIGHT. By John Lydgate. Sec. 35. His quotations from Chaucer's
  version of the Romaunt of the Rose. Date, about 1402. Sec. 36. IX. THE
  FLOUR OF CURTESYE. By John Lydgate. Date, about 1401. Sec. 37. X. A BALADE
  IN COMMENDATION OF OUR LADY. By John Lydgate. Sec. 38. A new stanza and
  a new MS. Sec. 39. XI. TO MY SOVERAIN LADY. By John Lydgate. Sec. 40. XII.
  BALLAD OF GOOD COUNSEL. By John Lydgate. Sec. 41. XIII. BEWARE OF
  DOUBLENESS. By John Lydgate. Sec. 42. XIV. A BALADE: WARNING MEN, &c.
  By John Lydgate. Sec. 43. XV. THREE SAYINGS. By John Lydgate. Sec. 44. XVI.
  LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCY. By Sir Richard Ros. Date, about 1460.
  Sec. 45. Apparently in the Leicestershire dialect. Sec. 46. Alan Chartier.
  Sec. 47. Thynne's text and the MSS. Sec. 48. XVII. THE TESTAMENT OF CRESSEID.
  By Robert Henryson. Date, about 1460. Sec. 49. XVIII. THE CUCKOO AND THE
  NIGHTING