Books
Help & feedbackFeedback
More
Sources & browser storage

Courses come from MIT OpenCourseWare, The Open University (OpenLearn) and TU Delft OpenCourseWare; each course page credits its source and license. Books in the reader come from Project Gutenberg, audiobooks from LibriVox.

RedLectern is independent of MIT, The Open University and TU Delft and is not endorsed by them. Self-study only: no grades, certificates, or credit.

Progress and notes are saved in this browser. Export a backup; clearing browser data can remove them. YouTube embeds may process usage data.

← Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems

II

Part 4 of 5 · Chaucer, Geoffrey · Public domain text

About this edition

Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #43089, public domain in the United States · text not rewritten or summarized · How RedLectern is built

 

Contents (7)
  1. Opening about 1 h 29 min
  2. Introduction about 49 min
  3. I. REPRINTED MATTER (part 1 of 2) about 7 h 24 min
  4. I. REPRINTED MATTER (part 2 of 2) about 2 h 16 min
  5. I under 1 min
  6. II under 1 min
  7. Appendix about 5 h 40 min
Help & feedback

Continue:

II

Of al this world the wyde compas 5 Hit wol not in myn armes tweyne.-- Who-so mochel wol embrace Litel therof he shal distreyne.

The MSS. are: F. (Fairfax 16); Ha. (Harl. 7578); Ad. (Addit. 16165). I follow F. mainly. TITLE; in F. Ha.; Ad. Prouerbe.

1. Ad. þees; F. Ha. these. All needlessly insert thus after clothes_._ F. many-folde. 2. F. Loo; hoote. 3. F. grete hete; Ha. greet hete; Ad. heet. F. colde. 4. Ha. pilche; F. pilch. 5. F. all; worlde. Ad. wyde; F. Ha. large. Ad. Ha. compas; F. compace. 6. Ad. Hit; F. Yt. Ad. wol; F. Ha. wil. Ad. myn; F. Ha. my. 7. F. Whoo-so.

* * * * *

Spotted a typo or a problem in this chapter? Tell us