Excerpt from The Riddle: A Pleasant Pastoral Comedy, Adapted From the Wife of Bath's Tale as It Is Set Forth in the Works of Master Geoffrey Chaucer, Presented at Otterspool on Midsummers Eve, 1895 Fame, this riddle, wherein the tastes of thy humerons and worthy posterity of danghters are investigated and unravel/ed, is dedicated with remote wen era tion hy thy degenerate Great. 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.