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 F.J. Furnivall & W.G. Stone. With an English abstract of the French original and Asiatic versions of the tale, by W.A. Clouston; plans of Canterbury in 1588, and the road thither from London in 1675, &c.
Contributors: Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910, ed.; Clouston, W. A. 1843-1896, ed.; Boswell-Stone, W. G. 1845-1904, joint ed.; Vipan, Frederick John, 1819-1894.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Bricaire de la Dixmerie, Nicholas, d. 1791.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Series: Early English Text Society. Extra series,; no. CV, 1909
Publisher: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., ltd. [etc.]
Published: 1909
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Other titles: Berinus.; Merchant's second tale.; Pardoner and the tapster.
Notes: Extra pages 200a-200b inserted after p. 200.
Published by the Chaucer Society, in 1887. The present edition, printed from a cast of the Chaucer Society's plates, includes the t.-p. of the 1887 edition: Supplementary Canterbury tales. [1] The tales of Beryn ... Re-edited ... by F.J. Furnivall and W.G. Stone [etc.]
Includes notes by F.J. Vipan.
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.