[82]. Delisle, Le Cabinet des MSS., i. p. 52.
[83]. This is the only edition in the British Museum. Its second title runs: Lepistre de Othea deesse de prudence enuoyee a lesperit cheualereux Hector de troye auec cent hystoires. Nouuellement imprimee a Paris. Other editions are said to have been issued at Lyons in 1497 and 1519, and at Paris in 1522.
[84]. Both date and age were given on his tomb at Bourges erected by Charles VII. in 1457 (Raynal, Histoire du Berry, 1844, ii. pp. 504, 513; Champeaux and Gauchery, Les Travaux d’art executés pour Jean de France, Duc de Berry, 1894, p. 43).
[85]. Ed. 1644, p. 238. Bouchet was born in 1476, and his work first appeared in 1524. I owe the reference to it to Mr. Wylie.
[86]. Histoire du Berry, ii. p. 375.
[87]. Histoire de France, 4th edition, 1878, vi. p. 25. The most favourable view of his character is given by Guiffrey, Inventaires, p. cxci.
[88]. “Now children of gramere scole conneþ no more Frensch þan can here lift heele ... also gentil men habbeþ now moche yleft for to teche here childern Freynsch” (R. Morris, Specimens of Early English, 1867, p. 339). See also the Rolls Series edition of Higden, ii. p. 161, where Trevisa’s text is taken from another MS.
[89]. See Chaucer’s Nonne Prestes tale, l. 14, “Of poynant saws hir needide never a deel.”
[90]. See above, p. xxxvi. There is an imperfect copy of the English text in the British Museum (C. 21. a. 34).
[91]. H. R. Plomer, Robert Wyer, printer and bookseller, 1897. For an account of the woodcuts, see p. 9.