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

See Morley's English Writers, vi. 115-8, where an analysis of the Tale is given.

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I.e. thorpe, village; I quote from the edition of 1561. Broughton is an error for Boughton.

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Ed. 'as ye'; which gives no sense.

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For a good account of the Tabard Inn and a discussion of the pilgrims, see Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, by J. Saunders, ed. 1889.

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Compare the articles by Koch and Kölbing, in Englische Studien, i. 249, ii. 528, and in Essays on Chaucer, p. 357.

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