Chaucer’s Freres Tale, v. 7091. ed. Tyr.;

and see his House of Fame, B. iii. fol. 267, Workes, ed. 1602.

“And of Phyton that Phebus made thus fine

Came Phetonysses that can so deuyne,” &c.

Lydgate’s Warres of Troy, B. ii. sig. K vi. ed. 1555.

“And secretelye this Saule is forth gone

To a woman that should him rede and wisse,

In Israell called a phytonesse.

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To diuines this matter I commit,