Among the Letters relating to the Suppression of Monasteries (Camden Soc.), p. 133, there is one from a monk of Pershore, who says that his brother monks of that house "drynk an bowll after collacyon tell ten or xii. of the clock, and cum to mattens as dronck as mys."'
248. See note to l. 235 above; so again, for l. 253, cf. Le Rom. de la Rose, 8617-8638.
255. Cf. Ovid, Heroid. xvi. 288:—
'Lis est cum forma magna pudicitiae.'
257. Probably Chaucer was thinking of a passage in Theophrastus, following soon after that quoted in the note to l. 235. 'Alius forma, alius ingenio, alius facetiis, alius liberalitate sollicitat.' But Theophrastus is referring to the accomplishments of the wooers rather than of the women wooed. Cf. Le Rom. de la Rose, ll. 8629-36—'S'ele est bele,' &c.
263. Clearly from Le Rom. de la Rose, l. 8637—
'Car tor de toutes pars assise
Envis eschape d'estre prise.'
265. Immediately after, we have—