Chaucer: Animaduersions Vppon the Annotacions and Corrections of Some, Imperfections of Impressiones of Chaucers Workes (Sett Downe Before Tyme, and ... the Yere of Oure Lorde I598 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Chaucer: Animaduersions Vppon the Annotacions and Corrections of Some, Imperfections of Impressiones of Chaucers Workes (Sett Downe Before Tyme, and Nowe) Reprinted in the Yere of Oure Lorde I598 This new edition of Francis Thynne's Animadversions was intended for issue last year, soon after the Hindwords were written; but it was set aside to make room for other friends' work, and other engagements of my own. The delay has been lucky, as it has obtaind for the book some very valuable notes from Mr Bradshaw, and has enabl'd me to add some further details about Francis Thynne, as well as contest Mr J. P. Collier's attributions to him of four little books, which, in my opinion, he no more wrote than I did. The reader must put-up with the inconvenience of finding the facts about William Thynne, the Chaucer-Editor, and his son Francis, the Chaucer-Commentator and Holinshed-Continuer, each in two different places. Dr George Kingsley's very pleasant Preface had earnd its right to a revisd reprint, and so the fresh details about the Thynnes and their work had to go in the Hindwords. No doubt more entries about William Thynne will appear in Professor Brewer's Calendar of State Papers, &c. in Henry VIII's Reign as it goes on. If they do, I hope to print these entries in a short Supplement as soon as the Calendar for 1546 is out. With not enough time for Chaucer and Shakspere searches at the Record Office, &c., I cannot pretend to undertake Thynne ones. The long quotations for and from the Thynnes in the Hindwords are deliberately given, instead of the facts containd in the extracts being packt into short paragraphs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.