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The Ms. Source of Caxton's Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

W. W. Greg  and
Margaret Kilgour
W. W. Greg
Affiliation:
London, England
Margaret Kilgour
Affiliation:
Winnipeg, Canada
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Comment and Criticism
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PMLA , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , December 1929 , pp. 1251 - 1253
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1929

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Note 1 in page 1252 For instance: “291. None of the probable MSS. has this reading word for word:” and cf. 356, 372, 407, 431, 505. Miss Kilgour's notes do not appear to be always correct. In 372 so ought apparently to be as: there is no so in the line. In 392 be instead of is cannot “have been introduced by Caxton to make the metre more regular,” while the reading of C7 was clearly not discarded on metrical grounds but in order to substitute what is substantially the reading of A3.