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Excerpt from A Detailed Comparison of the Eight Manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as Completely Printed in the Publications of the Chaucer Society For shortness' sake I must also refer my readers to the descriptions of the Mss. In question found in Dr. Furnivall's Temporary Preface, p. 44 - 85, to Prof. Skeat's Editions, to the Specimens of all accessible Mss. Of the Pardoner's Pro logue and Tale, Parts I and VIII, of the Clerk's Tale, Parts VI, VII, IX, and the Introductions to them by the late Prof. Zupitza and myself; further to the Introduction to my edition Of the Pardoner's Tale, eta, p. XXX sqq., and to Miss hammond's Chaucer, a Bibliographical Manual, p. 173 sqq. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.