Excerpt from The Harleian Manuscript 7334 and Revision of the Canterbury Tales Against the View that Chaucer ever produced two versions of so fragmentary a poem as the Canterbury Tales, or revised it to any great extent, I believe there is abundance of evidence to be derived from the mss. In general, and a great weight of a priori probability; but fully to consider these matters will require a far larger book than the present one. For the time being, in order to limit the subject, we may consider only evidence and probabilities derived from El. Itself. A thorough collection and consideration of these will do more than anything else could towards settling the question. 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.