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Excerpt from Shakespeare's Fight With the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His TextYale University Press, London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, My own powers of unimpeded utterance being restriéted to five minutes at a time, these lectures were very kindly read for me by Mr. Stephen Gaselee, of Magdalene College, and I have to record my gratitude, not only to Mr. Gaselee (to whom I am deeply in debt on many other co...

Excerpt from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Prologue The lines on which this edition of Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales is compiled have been determined by a happy conjunction of my own inclination and an external cause. After it had been begun, Dr. Liddell, one of my collaborators in the 'Globe' Chaucer, edited also for Messrs. Macmillan, though primarily for the Macmillan Company of New York, an edition of the Prologue and the T...

Excerpt from The Catiline and Jugurtha of Sallust: Translated Into English The text used in this translation is that of Dietsch's last edition. The system of division into paragraphs is taken from the same source. Wherever possible, the square brackets which Dietsch uses for marking words which he suspects as interpolations, have been retained in the English version. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rar...

Excerpt from English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes: Specimens of the Pre-Elizabethan Drama, Edited, With an Introduction, Notes, and GlossaryThe small attention devoted to the pre-elizabethan drama in all histories of English Literature is the best excuse for the appearance of the present volume of Specimens. Of the works from which these Specimens have been drawn, the greater part are accessible to students only in the Publications...

Excerpt from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Vol. 2: Edited With Notes and Introduction The Canterbury Tales Group D The Prologue of the Wyves Tale of Bathe "Experience, though noon auctoritee Were in this world, were right ynogh to me To speke of wo that is in mariage, For, lordynges, sith I twelf yeer was of age, - Y-thonked be God, that is eterne on lyve! Housbondes at chirche dore I have had fyve, For I so ofte have y-wedded bee, And al...

Excerpt from Old Picture Books: With Other Essays on Bookish SubjectsThe paper on 'england and the Bookish Arts originally appeared as an introduction to 'the English Bookman's Library' (kegan Paul and The other Essays are reprinted from 'bibliographica, ' 'the Connoisseur, 'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an importan...

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Excerpt from An Essay on Colophons: With Specimens and TranslationsThe idea especially implied in the Greek proverbial phrase to put on the colophon is that of putting the finishing stroke to anything, as when a building is com pleted by the addition of the coping-stone, or a discourse is summed up by a recapitulation of its general gist. Is the word simply used in the sense of a crowning peak? Or has it a special connection with the city of C...

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Excerpt from The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table: Abridged From Malory's Morte D'arthur A wandering knight challenges a great lord in a trial of skill, to be fought out to death or exhaustion, beneath the walls of the lord's castle. The wandering knight wins the day, and the lord becomes his vassal, takes him into his castle, feasts him, appoints a guard for his protection, and, when the victor bids him report himsel...

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