CHAUCER

THE PROLOGUE, THE KNIGHTES TALE

THE NONNE PREESTES TALE

MORRIS

a

London

HENRY FROWDE

DOM MINA
NVS T10
ILLE' MEA

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE

AMEN CORNER, E.C.

CHAUCER

THE PROLOGUE; THE KNIGHTES TALE
Knistics Tas

THE NONNE PREESTES TALE

FROM

THE CANTERBURY TALES

EDITED BY

REV. RICHARD MORRIS, LL.D.

Author of Historicul Owlines of English Accidence'
Editor of Hampole's • Pricke of conscience," " Early English. Alliterative Poems'
• The Story of Genesis and Ę::odus,'' The Ayenbite of Inwyt,' 'Old English Homilies,' &c.

Member of the Council of the Chilolugicu! Society

A NEW EDITION

WITH COLLATIONS AND ADDITIONAL NOTES

BY THE

REV. WALTER W. SKEAT, Litt.D.

O maister dere and fader reverent,
My maister Chaucers, four of eloquence !'

HOCCLEVE, De Regim. Princ. st. 281.

Oxford

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

MDCCC LXXXIX

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