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"The Nine Ladies Worthie," "Alone Walking," "Season of Feverere," "O Mercifull and Merci"" Mercurie and Pallas," able," Balade PleaNOTES:-Bibliography of Chaucer, 141-Grace Darling, 142- saunte," "Mossie Quince," ""Beware Deceitptfull Tennyson Forgery, 143- English Words, Teutonic and Latin, 144-Shakspeare and the Bible, 145-Cardinal Pole's Women," "Complainte of Pite," "Womens ChasMother-Putting Bees in Mourning-Government Profes-tite," "The Court of Loue," and Lydgate's sional Men-Burial without a Coffin-Origin of Black for "Thebes." In this edition also the genuine Chaucer's "Woordes unto his own Scrivener" first appear. Thynne's "Preface" and the "Plowmannes Tale" are repeated as in No. 3. There are two examples of this edition in the British Museum Library, each having a different title-page. 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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHAUCER. (See "N. & Q.," 1st S. i. 30; xi. 83; 2nd S. i. 357; vii. 218; 34 S. i. 322; iii. 2; viii. 532; 4th S. vi. 518; 5th S. ii. 381; iii. 7; vi. 530; vii. 134; 6th S. viii. 381; ix. 138). In the belief that there is no satisfactory bibliography of Chaucer in existence, I venture to contribute a few notes towards the compilation of one which I have made, chiefly for my own instruction, in the study of the poet. These notes are necessarily imperfect and tentative-designed to set the topic afloat and to secure corrections and further information. I have already attempted to describe the three earliest folio editions of Chaucer ("N. & Q.," 6th S. viii. 381). These are: 1. Thynne's, 1532; 2. Bonham and Reynes's, 1542; 3. The booksellers' edition of 1545-50. Í will now continue the catalogue, confining myself, for the present, to those editions which profess to give the complete works. No. 4 is the edition usually attributed to John Stow, issued in 1561: a black-letter folio of 378 leaves, differing but little from No. 3 till folio 340, when" certain workes of Chaucer not here to fore printed" are "gathered and added to this booke by Jhon Stowe." These are the ballads on "Gentlenesse," "Proverbe against Couitise," "Women Unconstaunt," "Women's Doubleness," "The Craft of Louers," "Ten Commandments of Loue," riage of Henry VII. There are ornamental initial capitals to each poem, and one other illustration, a knight in armour before the "Knyghtes Tale." The title is above the shield of arms : The Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, newlie printed, with diuers addicions whiche were neuer in printe before: with the siege and destruccion of the worthie citee of Thebes compiled by Jhon Lydgate, Monk of Berie. As in the table more plainly doeth appere. The date 1560 is in the shield of arms. Colophon: The second copy of this work, in the General Library, has the same title, and in the colophon the same date as well, and yet appears to be another impression. The words of the title are included within a square architectural compartment, representing at the top the court of a king, and at the bottom two boys with a graft growing out of a tun, the mark of the printer Grafton, 1540-53. The title of this volume is dated 1561, like the colophon. In it there are figures to the prologues as well as to the "Knightes Tale." In all other respects it seems the same work. The paper and printing are poor in both copies. No. 5 is Speght's first folio of 1598 :— The workes of our antient and lerned English poet Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed. In this impression you shall find these additions: 1. His portraiture and progenie shewed. 2. His life collected. 3. Arguments to every booke gathered. 4. Old and obscure words explained. 5. Authors by him cited declared. 6. Difficulties opened. 7. Two books of his never before printed. Londini impensis Geor. Bishop. Anno 1598. This title is included within an elaborate columnar and floral border, dated 1574. The columns are twisted and wreathed with vine branches; at the bottom the vine issues out of a vase; at the top is a tablet with a lamb lying on a stool, its legs |