MS. This (giving no sense).

[30]

Mr. Stewart omits thus.

[31]

MS. parelous (!). This shews that Walton's text can be corrected by Chaucer's.

[32]

Yet we must remember that 'The Former Age' only reproduces a part of this Metre; and that it also introduces a passage from Jerome, besides reminiscences of Ovid and of Le Roman de la Rose; as shewn in the notes.

[33]

Mr. Stewart adds another instance, from Bk. iii. met. 5. 5:—

And that the last ile in the see