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V. LADIES’ HEAD-DRESSES   5 VI. SHOE   6 VII. JOHN OF GAUNT   7 VIII. SHIP   8 IX. STYLUS   10 X. THE KNIGHT   19 XI. THE SQUIRE   20 XII. THE YEOMAN   21 XIII. THE PRIORESS   22 XIV. THE MONK   24 XV. THE FRIAR   25 XVI. THE MERCHANT   26 XVII. THE CLERK   27 XVIII. THE SERJEANT-OF-LAW   28 XIX. THE FRANKLIN   28 XX. TABLE DORMANT   28 XXI. THE DOCTOR OF PHYSIC   29 XXII. THE WIFE OF BATH   29 XXIII. THE PARSON   30 XXIV. THE PLOUGHMAN   31 XXV. THE SUMMONER   31 XXVI. THE PARDONER   31 XXVII. MINE HOST   32 XXVIII., XXIX. KNIGHTS IN ARMOUR   48

 

 

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FOREWORDS TO THE SECOND EDITION.

In revising Chaucer for Children for a New Edition, I have fully availed myself of the help and counsel of my numerous reviewers and correspondents, without weighting the book, which is really designed for children, with a number of new facts, and theories springing from the new facts, such as I have incorporated in my Book for older readers, Chaucer for Schools.

Curious discoveries are still being made, and will continue to be, thanks to the labours of men like Mr. F. J. Furnivall, and many other able and industrious scholars, encouraged by the steadily increasing public interest in Chaucer.

I must express my sincere thanks and gratification for the reception this book has met with from the press generally, and from many eminent critics in particular; and last, not least, from those to whom I devoted my pleasant toil, the children of England.

M. E. HAWEIS.

 

 

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FOREWORDS.

To the Mother.

A Chaucer for Children may seem to some an impossible story-book, but it is one which I have been encouraged to put together by noticing how quickly my own little boy learned and understood fragments of early English poetry. I believe that if they had the chance, many other children would do the same.

I think that