[236] Called 'Cm.' in the footnotes to vol. iv.
[237] There are two copies in MS. P.; they may be called P 1 and P 2.
[238] I make but little use of the copies in the second group.
[239] Two copies; may be called T 1 and T 2.
[240] Two copies; F 1 and F 2. The copy in P. is unprinted.
[241] Two copies; P 1 and P 2.
[242] Also a Balade, beginning 'Victorious kyng,' printed in G. Mason's edition of Occleve, 1796; as well as The Book of Cupid, which is another name for the Cuckoo and Nightingale.
[243] Unless they were composed, as Shirley says, by one Halsham, and adopted by Lydgate as subjects for new poems; see pp. [48], [57].
[244] i. e. in the ballad-measure, or 7-line stanzas.
[245] One page of this, in Shirley's writing, has been reproduced in facsimile for the Chaucer Society.