[455] Hous of Fame, Works, iii. bk. ii. l. 656-58.
[456] Book of the Duchesse, 44.
[457] Legend of Good Women, prol. 30ff.
[458] Valerie: possibly Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum de uxore non ducenda, attributed to Walter Mapes; it is a short treatise of about eight folios; it is printed in Cam. Soc. xvi. 77. Theofraste: Aureolus liber de Nuptiis, by one Theophrastus.
[459] Ll. 669-85.
[460] Troilus, ii. 81-105.
[461] It seems to be Chaucer’s own; only about a third of the poem comes from Boccaccio’s Filostrato. Chaucer had a copy of Thebais of Statius.—Troilus, v. l. 1484.
[462] Letter-book K, fo. 39, July 4, 1426.
[463] From schedule of the possessions of the Guildhall College, July 24, 1549.—L. A. R., x. 381.
[464] Chichele Register, pt. 1, fo. 392b, Lamb. Pal.; L. A. R., x. 382.