28. Cf. 'This simpil tretis for to take in gre'; T. G. 1387. 'Taketh at gre the rudness of my style'; Lydgate, Secrees of Philosophers, 21.
30. metriciens, skilful in metre, poets; a word which has a remarkably late air about it. Richardson gives an example of it from Hall's Chronicle.
36. Compare the following, from T. G. 1379-81.
'I purpos here to maken and to write
A litil tretise, and a processe make
In pris of women, oonli for hir sake.'
40. man, servant, one who does her homage; cf. Chaucer, C. T., I 772; La Belle Dame, 244; T. G. 742.
42. Cf. 'So that here-after my ladi may it loke'; T. G. 1392.
45. Cf. 'Ther was enclosed rype and sad corage'; C. T., E 220.
49, 50. Here the mountain of Cithæron, in Bœotia, is confused with the island of Cythera, sacred to Venus, whence her name Cytherea was derived. The mistake arose, of course, from the similarity of the names, and occurs (as said in vol. v. p. 78, note to A 1936), in the Roman de la Rose, where we find:—