[65] MS. Harl. 2253. Published by Thomas Wright for the Percy Society (London, 1847) as Specimens of Lyric Poetry.

[66] The rhyme-royal decasyllables of the "Supplication," or "Letter to Venus and Cupid," at the close of the Confessio, and of the poem "In Praise of Peace."

[67] In the disputed Romance of the Rose, and the undisputed Death of Blanche, and the somewhat later House of Fame.

[68] The Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, etc.

[69] First in the Legend of Good Women and then in the Canterbury Tales.

[70] These words are written, not merely on general principles, but from long and extensive knowledge of French fourteenth-century poetry.

[71] Such as the well-known

Twen|ty ¦ bok|ès ¦ clad | in ¦ black | or ¦ red

of the Oxford clerk.

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