Chaucer is, in fact, alluding to Trivet.

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In Anglia, xiv. 77-122, 147-185.

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I sometimes copy Mr. Brock's very words.

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The Dominican friars were also called Friars Preachers.

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Reprinted for the Early Eng. Text Soc., ed. S. J. Herrtage, 1879; see pp. 311, 493 of this edition.

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