‘Doth now your devoir, yonge knightes proude!’

A New Edition, Revised.

London
CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1882

CHIEFLY FOR THE USE AND PLEASURE OF
MY LITTLE LIONEL,
FOR WHOM I FELT THE NEED OF SOME BOOK OF THE KIND,
I HAVE ARRANGED AND ILLUSTRATED THIS
CHAUCER STORY-BOOK.


CONTENTS

FOREWORDS TO THE SECOND EDITION [ix]
FOREWORDS [xi]
CHAUCER THE TALE-TELLER [1]
CANTERBURY TALES:—
Chaucer’s Pilgrims [17]
Chaucer’s Prologue [18]
The Knight’s Tale [34]
The Friar’s Tale [57]
The Clerk’s Tale [65]
The Franklin’s Tale [84]
The Pardoner’s Tale [92]
MINOR POEMS:—
Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse [100]
Two Rondeaux [101]
Virelai [102]
Good Counsel of Chaucer [104]
NOTES ON THE PICTURES [107]