Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors in punctuation have been silentlycorrected.
These typos were corrected:
- page 321
- corrected “plu8” to “plus”
- page 379
- corrected placement of hyphen and “r”
from
“ex sue crearcionis priuilegio supe-”to
“ex sue crea-cionis priuilegio super” - page 414
- corrected “Twelth” to “Twelfth”
- line 11556
- corrected "d ela" to "de la"
- Index
- corrected "tresepoentablement" to "tresespoentablement"
All other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.
THE COMPLETE WORKS
OF
JOHN GOWER
G. C. MACAULAY
*
THE FRENCH WORKS
HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK
THE COMPLETE WORKS
OF
JOHN GOWER
EDITED FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS
WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, AND GLOSSARIES
BY
G. C. MACAULAY, M.A.
FORMERLY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
*
THE FRENCH WORKS
Oxford
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1899
Oxford
PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
BY HORACE HART, M.A.
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
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PREFACE
The publication of this book may most conveniently be explained by ashort account of the circumstances which brought it about.
While engaged some years ago in studying the Chaucer manuscripts inthe Bodleian Library, I incidentally turned my attention also to thoseof the Confessio Amantis. The unsatisfactory character of theexisting editions of that poem was sufficiently well known, and itwas generally recognized that the printed text could not safely bereferred to by philologists,