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The text is based on the 1865 EETS edition of Thynne’s Animadversions. Two purely typographic features have been adopted from the 1876 Chaucer Society re-edition of the same MS. Passages printed in [brackets] in 1865 have been changed to 1876’s (parentheses); conversely, words or letters supplied by the editor are shown in [brackets], reserving italics for expanded abbreviations. Other differences, and ways of marking them, are explained at the end of the e-text.
Page numbers are shown in the left margin. Italicized numbers in the right margin are from the 1876 edition (main text only).
[Preface]
[Animadversions]
[Index]
[Transcriber’s Notes]