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The peculiar conditions of this essay must be left to ex plain themselves. It could not have been written at all without the aid of the Publications of the Chaucer Society, and more especially of the labours of the Society's Director, Mr. Furnivall. To other recent writers on Chaucer - in eluding Mr. Fleay, from whom I never difi'er but with hesitation - I have referred, in so far as it was in my power to do 80. Perhaps I may take this opportunity of ex pressing a wish that Pauli's History of England, a work beyond the compliment of an acknowledgment, were acces.
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