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 English abstract of 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.; Boswell-Stone, W. G. 1845-1904.; Vipan, Frederick John, 1819-1894.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Bricaire de la Dixmerie, Nicolas, d. 1791.
Series: Chaucer Society. [Publications] Second series. 17,24
Publisher: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner & Co.
Published: 1887
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Canterbury (England); Canterbury (England) -- Description -- Maps
Genres: Maps.
Other titles: Berinus (Romances); Merchant's second tale.; Pardoner and the tapster.
Notes: At head of title: Supplementary Canterbury tales. 1.
Issued in two parts, 1876-87; 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 chavalier Berinus. 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. 225-227.
Reissued in 1909 with new t.-p. as Extra series, no. 5. Early English Text Society.