Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

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These numbers refer to the lines of the B-text of the Prologue.

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Cf. L. G. W. 2177, 2227.

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Cf. L. G. W. 1952-8.

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Gower is amusing when he turns Ovid's 'Ad uada Maeandri' (Her. vii. 2) into a reference to 'King Menander'!

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The unfamiliar form Guido was read as Ouide, by changing G, o, into O, e.