1553. 'I know best where my shoe pinches me.' This story has been already alluded to; see D. 492, and the note.
1558. Tyrwhitt has:—'By him that made water, fire, erthe, and aire.' This will not scan, and the word fire is introduced merely to please the editor, being found in none of the seven MSS., nor in the old editions. When Chaucer wishes to mention all the four elements, he does so; see A. 1246, 2992.
1560-1. From Le Rom. de la Rose, 14055-6:—
'Car cil a moult poi de savoir
Qui seus cuide sa fame avoir.'
1582. Cf. Boeth. bk. v. met. 4. 8; Troil. i. 365; Ayenb. of Inwyt, p. 158.
1584. E. Hn. have se ful many, but the rest omit ful. Scan the
line by reading many a in one foot, and making figúr-e trisyllabic, as in B. 3412, E. 16.
1592. voys, fame, general approval.
1609. Read inpossíbl', and wer-e. were, would be.