[408] Legend of Good Women, ll. 1039–43; Parliament of Fowls, ll. 199–200. [↑]

[409] Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, 438 (440). [↑]

[410] Id. 653–61 (655–63). Cp. Tale of the Wife of Bath; 1–25. [↑]

[411] Legend of Good Women, prol. ll. 1–9; Knight’s Tale, ll. 1951–56 (2809–14 of MS. group A). [↑]

[412] The notion connects with the spurious Ploughman’s Tale and Pilgrim’s Tale, as to which see Lounsbury, as cited, i, 460–73; ii, 460–69. [↑]

[413] Vision of Piers Ploughman, ll. 5809 sq. Wright’s ed. i, 179–80. [↑]

[414] Chaucer’s Boece, B. I. Prose iv. ll. 223–26, in Skeat’s Student’s Chaucer. [↑]

[415] Mosheim, 14 Cent. Pt. ii, ch. ii, § 36, and note. Cp. Green, Short History of the English People, ch. v, § 3, ed. 1881, p. 235. [↑]

[416] Cp. Green, Short Hist. ch. v, § 5; Massingberd, The English Reformation, p. 171. [↑]

[417] Cited by Lechler, Wycliffe and his English Precursors, Eng. tr. 1-vol. ed. p. 440. [↑]