[8] Perhaps this is why Langland refers to 'the castel of Corf'; P. Plowman, C. iv. 140.
[9] Rolls of Parliament, iii. 234 a.
[10] Professor Morley says:—'As Boethius ... wrote three books of the Consolation of Philosophy," &c. But Boethius wrote five books.
[11] One line is enough to shew the order of the texts; see p. [xv], footnote.
[12] But this proves nothing, as Urry departs from all sound texts in an erratic manner all his own.
[13] The expression 'the quenes heed,' at l. 158, hardly implies that there was then a queen of England. If it does, it makes the poem later than October, 1396.
[14] The line, as it stands, is ambiguous; what Spenser meant to say was—'the Ploughman that the Pilgrim playde awhyle'; which expresses the fact. The subject is 'the Ploughman'; and 'that' means 'whom.'
[15] Mr. Wright says 1401, and refers to Capgrave's Chronicle. But this is surely an error; see J. H. Wylie's Hist. of Henry IV, i. 277-8; with a reference to the Close Rolls, 3 Hen. IV, 2. 16.
[16] Fairfax deduced the date from the poem here printed, l. 393.
[17] Shirley also refers to Lydgate's Temple of Glas; see Schick's edition of that poem; p. lxxxii.