[27] See the ballade by Eustache Deschamps, quoted in Chaucer, Works, ed. Morris, vol. 1, p. 82.

[28] Minor Poems of the Vernon MS, Pt. 1, E.E.T.S., The Castle of Love, l. 72.

[29] E.E.T.S., Cotton Vesp. MS. ll. 233-5.

[30] E.E.T.S., l. 457.

[31] See Cambridge History of English Literature, v. 2, p. 313.

[32] Preface to The Image of Governance, 1549.

[33] Sammlung Altenglischer Legenden, ed. Horstmann, Christine, ll. 517-20.

[34] Preface, E.E.T.S.

[35] Capgrave, St. Katherine of Alexandria, E.E.T.S., Bk. 3, l. 21.

[36] In Altenglische Legenden, Neue Folge, l. 45.