OF

  JOHN GOWER

 EDITED FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, AND GLOSSARIES

  BY

  G. C. MACAULAY, M.A. FORMERLY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

  * * THE ENGLISH WORKS

  (Confessio Amantis, Prol.—Lib. V. 1970)

Confessio Amantis, Prol.—Lib. V. 1970

  ‘O gentile Engleterre, a toi j’escrits.’

 Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1901 

Oxford

 Oxford PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY HORACE HART, M.A. PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY 

Oxford

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PREFATORY NOTE

The circumstances under which this edition was undertaken have already been stated in the Preface to the volume containing the French Works, where mention is also made of the editor’s obligations to many librarians and private owners of manuscripts.

At present it need only be said that the editor has become more and more convinced, as his work went on, of the value and authentic character of the text given by the Fairfax MS. of the Confessio Amantis, which as proceeding directly from the author, though not written by his hand, may claim the highest rank as an authority for his 

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