Excerpt from Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales With Explanatory Notes: A Glossary, and a Life of the Poet The old spelling has been retained; but a little pains will soon enable the student to master, not only the orthography, but also the language and the metre of the poet. 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.