[420] Proclamation of Richard II, year 1385; Rymer’s “Foedera,” ed. 1704, vol. vii. p. 458.
[421] “Rolls of Parliament,” 20 E. III, vol. ii. p. 162, A.D. 1346.
[422] Labbe, “Sacrosancta Concilia,” Florence, vol. xxvi. col. 729.
[423] “Select English Works,” vol. iii. p. 396.
[424] “The English Works of Wyclif, hitherto unprinted,” edited by F. D. Matthew, Early English Text Society, 1880, p. 13. Most of the pieces in this collection are only attributed to Wyclif, this one among them. See also Gower’s “Vox Clamantis,” Roxburghe Club, 1850, p. 228.
[425] “English Works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted,” p. 12.
[426] So also in Chaucer’s “Prologue”:
“His typet was ay farsud ful of knyfes
And pynnes, for to yive faire wyfes.”
[427] Wright’s “Political Poems and Songs,” 1859, vol. i. pp. 264 and 268.