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THE COMPLETE WORKS

 

OF

 

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

 

EDITED, FROM NUMEROUS MANUSCRIPTS

BY THE

Rev. WALTER W. SKEAT

Litt.D., LL.D., D.C.L., Ph.D.

ELRINGTON AND BOSWORTH PROFESSOR OF ANGLO-SAXON
AND FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

 

* ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE
MINOR POEMS

 

———'blanda sonantibus
Chordis carmina temperans.
Boethius, De Cons. Phil. Lib. iii. Met. 12. 

'He temprede hise blaundisshinge songes by resowninge strenges.'
Chaucer's Translation.

 

SECOND EDITION

 

OXFORD

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS