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Second Middle English Primer: Extracts from Chaucer, With Grammar and Glossary (Classic Reprint)
Second Middle English Primer Extracts from Chaucer With Grammar and Glossary - Classic Reprint Author:Henry Sweet PREFACE The present work is intended as a continuation of my Firsi Middle English Primer; it will, I hope, be welcome, not only to those who have already worked with the earlier book, but also to the more numerous class of students who simply wish to acquire the power of reading Chaucer at sight in such a way as to do full justice to the metre, ... more »and at the same time to restore, as far as possible, the genuine Middle English pronunciation. My grammar is based mainly on Ten Brink's Ckaucers Sprache und Ver$kttn$tt although, as will be seen, I differ from him on many questions of pronunciation. As regards veriuy ver/ew, Ac*, I have adopted Henry Nicol's view (Transs. Phil, Soc. 1877-9, vfyf which Ten Brink seems to have overlooked, Jn the treatment of the French elements and the versification I have followed him more closely, as also in ihe inflections, The phonetic transcriptions added to the Complain/ to Pity and the Prologue may seem too minute and conjectural. But in studying a
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