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

From Parl. of Foules, 696.

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There are such accounts; but they are probably copied from Chaucer, who seems to have invented this transformation himself. See Notes and Queries, 7 Ser. vi. 186, 309, 372.

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Not twentieth; for Legend IV contains two heroines.

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The MS. has shete, an obvious error for swete, the alliteration being on sw. But the editors print shene.

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Not 'formator,' as in Bell's note; a contraction for 'um' is added.

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