ΤΟ CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, A GLOSSARY, AND A LIFE OF THE POET. FOR THE USE OF COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS. EDITED BY WALTER M'LEOD, F.R.G.S., F.C.P., &c. Head Master, Model Schools, Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea: BLAN 'The firste fynder of our faire langage.'-OCCLEVE. BOD OMITTAINA LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1871. n. 229. 280. n. PREFACE THE PRESENT EDITION of the Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales has been prepared specially for the use of candidates qualifying for admission into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. It is believed, however, that the work may be advantageously introduced into Collegiate, Grammar, and Middle-Class Schools; into Government Training Colleges; and wherever the study of the English Language forms an essential element in the education of youth. Great pains have been taken to make the work a thoroughly practical handbook; and the student, it is hoped, will find in the Notes appended to each page, and in the Glossary, all the information required for a complete understanding of the poem. The old spelling has been retained; but a little pains will soon enable the student to master, not only the orthography, but also the language and the metre of the poet. The chapters, therefore, which treat of the Grammatical Forms and the Versification of Chaucer, |