Il a j'à bien cinc ans au mains.'
which would make him five and twenty at least, a much more likely age, considering the work he had done, for his death.
At the close of his part of the book we get the following note by the scholiast, if we may call him so:—
'Çi endroit, trespassa Guillaume
De Lorris et ne fist plus pseaume;
Mais après plus de quarante ans
Maistre Jehan de Meung li romans
Parfist, ainsi comme je treuve,
Et ici commence son œuvre.'
That is,—