[139]Ibid. I. 30.
[140]"Poem of the Owl and Nightingale," who dispute as to which has the finest voice.
[141]Letter of Peter of Blois.
[142]William of Malmesbury.
[143]At the installation feast of George Nevill, Archbishop of York, the brother of Guy of Warwick, there were consumed 104 oxen and 6 wild bulls, 1000 sheep, 304 calves, as many hogs, 2000 swine, 500 stags, bucks, and does, 204 kids, 22,802 wild or tame fowl, 300 quarters of corn, 300 tuns of ale, 100 of wine, a pipe of hypocras, 12 porpoises and seals.
[144]These prodigalities and refinements grew to excess under his grandson Richard II.
[145]Warton, I. 156.
[146]Warton, I. 176, spelling modernized.
[147]Warton, I. 123:
"In Fraunce these rhymes were wroht,
Every Englyshe ne knew it not."
[148]See Lingard's "History," II. 55, note 4.—Tr.