The  tale of Beryn
Subtitle: with a prologue of the merry adventure of the Pardoner with a Tapster at Canterbury
By: re-edited from the Duke of Northumberland's unique MS. by Frederick J. Furnivall and Walter G. Stone ; [English abstract of the French original and Asiatic versions of the tale by W. A. Clonston.
Contributors: Berinus; Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.; Boswell-Stone, W. G. 1845-1904; Clouston, W. A. 1843-1896; Vipan, Frederick John, 1819-1894; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Bricaire de La Dixmerie, Nicolas, 1731-1791
Series: Supplementary Canterbury tales -- 1, 2; Publications - Chaucer society. Second series -- 17, 24
Publisher: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner
Published: 1876
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Canterbury (England); Canterbury (England) -- Description and travel -- Maps
Other titles: Merchant's second tale; Pardoner and the tapster
Work titles: Beryn.
Notes: A continuation of the Canterbury tales, first printed in the 1721 Chaucer, but regarded as spurious. The tale is identical with part of a French prose romance: L'histoire du chevalier Berinus. The English abstract of the original is a free translation from the abstract by Bricaire de la Dixmerie.