PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
BY HORACE HART, M.A.,
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
IN GRATEFUL MEMORY
OF
HENRY BRADSHAW
CONTENTS.
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| General Introduction.—[§ 1]. Objects in view in preparing this edition. [§ 2]. Romaunt of the Rose. [§ 3]. The Minor Poems; Canon of Chaucer's works. [§ 4]. A Compleint to his Lady; the Former Age; Merciless Beautee; Balade to Rosemounde; Against Women Unconstaunt; Complaints. [§ 5]. Boethius. [§ 6]. Troilus. [§ 7]. The House of Fame. [§ 8]. The Legend of Good Women. [§ 9]. The Astrolabe. [§ 10]. The Canterbury Tales. [§ 11]. Obligations to others. [§ 12]. Thomas Tyrwhitt; Thomas Wright; Bell and others. [§ 13]. Prof. Child; Dr. Ellis; Dr. Sweet; Prof. Ten Brink; and others. [§ 14]. The Glossarial Index. [§ 15]. Aesthetic criticism. [§ 16]. The Dialect of Chaucer. [§ 17]. Chaucer's Kenticisms. [§ 18]. Pronunciation. §19. The Vowels and Diphthongs. [§ 20]. The Consonants. [§ 21]. Accentuation. [§ 22]. Explanation of phonetic symbols. [§ 23]. The M.E. vowels. Example of pronunciation. [§ 24]. Scansion and accents. [§ 25]. Rimes illustrating the Pronunciation. Open and close ō. Long and short open o. [§ 26]. Long and short open o in the Minor Poems. [§ 27]. The same; in the Legend. [§ 28]. The same; in the Tales. [§ 29]. Open and close ō in Chaucer. [§ 30]. Open and close ē. [§ 31]. Sources of long e. [§ 32]. Development of long e. [§ 33]. Development of close ē. [§ 34]. Summary of the preceding results. §35. Examples of unstable ē. §36. Word-lists. [§ 37]. Apparent exceptions in the Tales. [§ 38]. Apparent exceptions elsewhere. [§ 39]. Use of the above tests. [§ 40]. Further examples. [§ 41]. Fuller word-lists; types A, B, and C, Chaucer's rules. [§ 42]. Some peculiarities of rime. [§ 43]. Rimes involving two words; other feminine rimes. [§ 44]. Permissible rimes. Double word-forms. [§ 45]. Repetitions. [§ 46]. Prof. Lounsbury's objections: supposed false rimes in Chaucer and Gower. [§ 47]. Feet, accusative, and fete, dative; entente; fore; broughte riming with nought. [§ 48]. Further attacks upon rimes in Chaucer and Gower. [§ 49]. General failure of these attacks. [§ 50]. Assonances. [§ 51]. Non-riming of -y and -y-ë. [§ 52]. Metres and Forms of Verse. [§ 53]. Lines of four accents; ballad-metre; four-line stanza. [§ 54]. The eight-line stanza. [§ 55]. The seven-line stanza; from Machault. [§ 56]. Terza Rima. [§ 57]. A ten-line stanza. [§ 58]. Two nine-line stanzas. [§ 59]. Stanzas of six and five lines. [§ 60]. Stanzas in Anelida. [§ 61]. Roundels. §62. Chaucer as a metrist. §63. Balades and Terns. [§ 64]. The Envoy. [§ 65]. The Heroic Couplet. [§ 66]. Grammatical Outlines. [§ 67]. General Rules. [§ 68]. The Strong Declension of Substantives. [§ 69]. Archaisms. [§ 70]. Three Types of Strong Substantives. [§ 71]. Effect of Accent. [§ 72]. Double forms. [§ 73]. The Weak Declension. [§ 74]. Genitive Singular. [§ 75]. Dative Singular. [§ 76]. Plurals. [§ 77]. Substantives of French origin. [§ 78]. Adjectives. [§ 79]. Comparatives. [§ 80]. Superlatives. [§ 81]. Numerals. [§ 82]. Pronouns. [§ 83]. Possessives. [§ 84]. Demonstratives. [§ 85]. Interrogatives. [§ 86]. Relatives. [§ 87]. Other pronominal forms. [§ 88]. Verbs. [§ 89]. General formulae for verbs. [§ 90]. Seven Conjugations of Strong Verbs. [§ 91]. Formation of Weak Verbs. [§ 92]. Three Classes of Weak Verbs. [§ 93]. Some other Verbs. [§ 94]. Negative forms. [§ 95]. Adverbs. [§ 96]. Prepositions and Conjunctions. [§ 97]. Constructions. [§ 98]. Versification. [§ 99]. Three Latin terms; iamb, trochee, amphibrach. [§ 100]. Speech-waves. [§ 101]. Prose and Verse. [§ 102]. Some new symbols. [§ 103]. Old French metres. [§ 104]. Sixteen forms of lines. [§ 105]. Chaucer's chief licences. [§ 106]. Examples of scansion. [§ 107]. His moveable pause. [§ 108]. Additional syllables explained. [§ 109]. Examples of additional syllables. [§ 110]. Syllable dropped in the midst of a line. [§ 111]. Accentuation. [§ 112]. Elision. [§ 113]. The vowel i not counted as a syllable. [§ 114]. Suppression of syllables. [§ 115]. Contraction. [§ 116]. No elision at a pause. [§ 117]. Four-accent metre. [§ 118]. Alliteration. [§ 119]. Chaucer's authorities | [ix] |
| Glossarial Index | [1] |
| Glossary to Fragments B and C of the Romaunt of the Rose | [311] |
| Glossary to Gamelyn | [347] |
| Index of Proper Names | [359] |
| Index of authors quoted or referred to by Chaucer | [381] |
| Index of books referred to in the notes | [390] |
| List of Manuscripts | [399] |
| General list of Errata | [400] |
| General Index | [410] |