The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales, so far as they are in verse, have been

printed without any abridgement or designed change in the

sense. But the two Tales in prose -- Chaucer's Tale of

Meliboeus, and the Parson's long Sermon on Penitence -- have

been contracted, so as to exclude thirty pages of unattractive

prose, and to admit the same amount of interesting and

characteristic poetry. The gaps thus made in the prose Tales,

however, are supplied by careful outlines of the omitted matter,

so that the reader need be at no loss to comprehend the whole

scope and sequence of the original. With The Faerie Queen a

bolder course has been pursued. The great obstacle

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