[246] This page has been reproduced, in facsimile, for the Chaucer Society.
[247] It is also twice attributed to Chaucer in MS. P.
[248] I follow the account in Morley's English Writers, 1867, ii. 204; the name is there given as de Guilevile; but M. Paul Meyer writes De Deguilleville.
[249] Morley says 1330; a note in the Camb. MS. Ff. 6. 30 says 1331.
[250] Edited by Mr. W. Aldis Wright for the Roxburghe Club in 1869; see p. 164 of that edition. And see a note in Warton's Hist. Eng. Poetry, ed. Hazlitt, 1871, vol. iii. p. 67.
[251] See Furnivall's Trial Forewords, pp. 13-15, and p. 100, for further information.
[252] The initial E stands for et. See next note.
[253] The initial C stands for cetera. It was usual to place &c. (= et cetera) at the end of the alphabet.
[254] Chaucer speaks of writing compleintes; Cant. Ta. 11260 (F. 948).
[255] Cf. 'this eight yere'; Book of the Duchesse, 37.