Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, Volume 1order of the Trustees, 1883 - Literature, Medieval |
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Page 512 - Tale. In all the MSS. it is called the Cooke's Tale, and therefore I call it so in like manner : But had I found it without an Inscription, and had been left to my Fancy to have bestow'd it on which of the Pilgrims I had pleas'd, I should certainly have adjudg'd it to the Squire's Yeoman; who tho as minutely describ'd by Chaucer, and characteriz'd in the third Place, yet I find no Tale of his in any of the MSS. And because I think there is not any one that would fit him so well as this, I have ventur'd...
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Page 390 - Soe did the knights, both more and lesse, Reioyced all that day For the good chance that hapened was To Sir Gawaine and his lady gay.
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| Title | Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, Volume 1 Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, John Alexander Herbert |
| Authors | British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, Henry Leigh Douglas Ward, John Alexander Herbert |
| Publisher | order of the Trustees, 1883 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Mar 12, 2008 |
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