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| Title | Poetical Works: With an Essay on His Language and Versification and an Introductory Discourse. Together with Notes and a Glossary |
| Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Editor | Thomas Tyrwhitt |
| Publisher | Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 Feb 2006 |
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