References: Lowell's My Study Windows; Marsh's Origin and History of the English Language; Charles Cowden Clarke's The Riches of Chaucer; Morley's English Writers, vol. v; Carpenter's English of the XIV Century; Taine's English Literature; Lounsbury's Studies in Chaucer; Hazlitt's English Poets.


INDEX TO NOTES.


TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

Ellipses match the original.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the orginal.