The tale of Beryn
By: re-edited by F.J. Furnivall and W.G. Stone.
Contributors: Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910; Boswell-Stone, W. G. 1845-1904; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Bricaire de La Dixmerie, Nicolas, 1731-1791
Series: Early English Text Society.  Extra series -- 105
Publisher: Kraus Reprint Co.
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Millwood, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Other titles: Berinus (Romance)
Work titles: Beryn.
Notes: Reprint of 1909 ed.

A continuation of the Canterbury tales, "obviously by a later hand", first printed by Urry in the 1721 Chaucer, as the "Merchant's second tale", and included in several later editions; but from the first generally regarded as spurious.  The tale is identical with the first part of a French prose romance: L'histoire du chevalier Bérinus.  The English abstract of the original has title: The merchant and the rogues.  It is a free translation from the abstract, by Bricaire de la Dixmerie in Mélanges tirés d'une grande bibliothèque, Paris, t. VIII, p. 225-277.