[196] The Legend of Good Women is here meant: and 'xxv.' is certainly an error for 'xix.'
[197] Printed separately in the present edition, in vol. iii.
[198] Of course I mean that dy-e is the Chaucerian form; the author of the Lamentation pronounced it differently, viz. as dy.
[199] See the excellent treatise by Dr. E. Köppel entitled 'Laurents de Premierfait und John Lydgates Bearbeitungen von Boccaccios De Casibus Virorum Illustrium'; München, 1885.
[200] Not Ovid, but Statius; Lydgate makes a slip here; see note to IV. 245.
[201] In Lydgate's Lyfe of St. Albon, ed. Hortsmann, l. 15, this line appears in the more melodious form—'The golden trumpet of the House of Fame.'
[202] Hoccleve's poem entitled 'Moder of God' is erroneously attributed to Chaucer in two Scottish copies (Arch. Seld. B 24, and Edinb. 18. 2. 8). But it occurs among 16 poems, all by Hoccleve, in a MS. in the collection of the late Sir Thos. Phillipps, as already noted in § 1 above. A few of these poems (not including the 'Moder of God') were printed from this MS. in the edition of some of 'Occleve's Poems' by G. Mason, in 1796.
[203] Printed 'Six couplets'; clearly a slip of the pen.
[204] They are printed in full below, on p. [46].
[205] i. e. the Parliament of Foules.