Whose parish was wide. Ibid. 491.
A slendre colerike man. Ibid. 587.
Chaucer, it has been said, numbered the classes of men. Cf. Wm. Blake’s Descriptive Catalogue, III. ‘As Newton numbered the stars, and as Linnaeus numbered the plants, so Chaucer numbered the classes of men.’
A Sompnoure. Ibid. 623–41. [‘Children were aferd,’ ‘oynons, and eek lekes,’ ‘A fewe termes hadde he’]; 663–669.
[25]. Ther maist thou se. ‘The Knightes Tale,’ 2128–2151; 2155–2178; 2185–6.
[27]. The Flower and the Leaf. Most modern scholars regard the evidence which attributes this poem to Chaucer as insufficient. The same few words of Hazlitt’s were originally used in The Round Table, ‘Why the Arts are not Progressive?’ vol. I. p. 162.
[28]. Griselda. ‘The Clerkes Tale.’ See The Round Table, vol. I. p. 162.
The faith of Constance. ‘The Tale of the Man of Law.’
[29]. Oh Alma redemptoris mater. ‘The Prioress’s Tale.’
Whan that Arcite. ‘The Knightes Tale,’ 1355–71. [‘His hewe falwe.’]