List of Illustrations.
| COLOURED PICTURES. | ||||
| PAGE | ||||
| I. | PILGRIMS STARTING | [Frontispiece] | ||
| II. | DINNER IN THE OLDEN TIME | To face | [2] | |
| III. | LADY CROSSING THE STREET | " | [6] | |
| IV. | FAIR EMELYE | " | [37] | |
| V. | GRISELDA’S MARRIAGE | " | [69] | |
| VI. | GRISELDA’S BEREAVEMENT | " | [72] | |
| VII. | DORIGEN AND AURELIUS | " | [86] | |
| VIII. | THE RIOTER | " | [97] | |
| CHAUCER’S PORTRAIT | " | [3] | ||
| WOODCUTS. | ||||
| PAGE | ||||
| I. | TOURNAMENT | [Title-page] | ||
| II. | TABLE | [2] | ||
| III. | HEAD-DRESSES | [2] | ||
| IV. | MAPS OF OLD AND MODERN LONDON | To face | [4] | |
| V. | LADIES’ HEAD-DRESSES | [5] | ||
| VI. | SHOE | [6] | ||
| VII. | JOHN OF GAUNT | [7] | ||
| VIII. | SHIP | [8] | ||
| IX. | STYLUS | [10] | ||
| X. | THE KNIGHT | [19] | ||
| XI. | THE SQUIRE | [20] | ||
| XII. | THE YEOMAN | [21] | ||
| XIII. | THE PRIORESS | [22] | ||
| XIV. | THE MONK | [24] | ||
| XV. | THE FRIAR | [25] | ||
| XVI. | THE MERCHANT | [26] | ||
| XVII. | THE CLERK | [27] | ||
| XVIII. | THE SERJEANT-OF-LAW | [28] | ||
| XIX. | THE FRANKLIN | [28] | ||
| XX. | TABLE DORMANT | [28] | ||
| XXI. | THE DOCTOR OF PHYSIC | [29] | ||
| XXII. | THE WIFE OF BATH | [29] | ||
| XXIII. | THE PARSON | [30] | ||
| XXIV. | THE PLOUGHMAN | [31] | ||
| XXV. | THE SUMMONER | [31] | ||
| XXVI. | THE PARDONER | [31] | ||
| XXVII. | MINE HOST | [32] | ||
| XXVIII., XXIX. | KNIGHTS IN ARMOUR | [48] | ||
FOREWORDS TO THE SECOND EDITION.
In revising Chaucer for Children for a New Edition, I have fully availed myself of the help and counsel of my numerous reviewers and correspondents, without weighting the book, which is really designed for children, with a number of new facts, and theories springing from the new facts, such as I have incorporated in my Book for older readers, Chaucer for Schools.
Curious discoveries are still being made, and will continue to be, thanks to the labours of men like Mr. F. J. Furnivall, and many other able and industrious scholars, encouraged by the steadily increasing public interest in Chaucer.
I must express my sincere thanks and gratification for the reception this book has met with from the press generally, and from many eminent critics in particular; and last, not least, from those to whom I devoted my pleasant toil, the children of England.
M. E. HAWEIS.