# Chaucer's Works (ed. Skeat) Vol. VI

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THE COMPLETE WORKS
OF
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
EDITED, FROM NUMEROUS MANUSCRIPTS
BY THE
Rev. WALTER W. SKEAT, M.A. Litt.D., LL.D., D.C.L., Ph.D. ELRINGTON AND BOSWORTH PROFESSOR OF ANGLO-SAXON AND FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
INTRODUCTION, GLOSSARY, AND INDEXES
'Thou shall have yit, or hit be eve, Of every word of this sentence A preve, by experience; And with thyn eres heren wel Top and tail, and everydel.' The Hous of Fame, 876-880.
Oxford
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
M DCCC XCIV
IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF HENRY BRADSHAW
CONTENTS.
* 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
* Glossarial Index: [ A—D ] - [ E—K ] - [ L—R ] - [ S—Z ]
* Glossary to Fragments B and C of the Romaunt of the Rose
* Glossary to Gamelyn
* Index of Proper Names
* Index of authors quoted or referred to by Chaucer
* Index of books referred to in the notes
* List of Manuscripts
* General list of Errata
* General Index
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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