_The Prioress's Tale_.
'Call up him who left half told The story of Cambuscan bold.' In the following Poem no further deviation from the original has been made than was necessary for the fluent reading and instant understanding of the Author: so much, however, is the language altered since Chaucer's time, especially in pronunciation, that much was to be removed, and its place supplied with as little incongruity as possible.

The ancient accent has been retained in a few conjunctions, as _also_ and _alway_, from a conviction that such sprinklings of antiquity would be admitted, by persons of taste, to have a graceful accordance with the subject.

The fierce bigotry of the Prioress forms a fine back-ground for her tender-hearted sympathies with the Mother and Child; and the mode in which the story is told amply atones for the extravagance of the miracle.
XXIII.

POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF OLD AGE.
489.

_The Old Cumberland Beggar_.