2] Latin Preface.
[13] For further comment, see Chapter II.
[14] Trans. in Thorpe, _Caedmon's Metrical Pharaphrase_, London, 1832, p.
xxv.
[15] Ll. 1238 ff. For trans. see _The Christ of Cynewulf_, ed. Cook, pp.
xlvi-xlviii.
[16] Cf. comment on l. 1, in Introduction to _Andreas_, ed. Krapp, 1906, p.
lii: "The Poem opens with the conventional formula of the epic, citing
tradition as the source of the story, though it is all plainly of literary
origin."
[17] I.e. Laurent de Premierfait.
[18] _Bochas' Falls of Princes_, 1558.
[19] Ed. Ritson, ll. 1138-9.
[20] A version, ll. 341-4. Cf. Puttenham, "... many of his books be but
bare translations out of the Latin and French ... as his books of _Troilus
and Cresseid_, and the _Romant of the Rose_," Gregory Smith, _Elizabethan
Critical Essays_, ii, 64.
[21] _Osbern Bokenam's Legenden_, ed. Horstmann, 1883, ll. 108-9, 124.
[22] _The Life of St. Werburge_, E.E.T.S., ll. 94. 127-130.
[23] _Minor Poems of Lydgate_, E.E.T.S., _Legend of St. Gyle_, ll. 9-10,
27-32.
[24] _Ibid._, _Legend of St. Margaret_, l. 74.
[25] _St. Christiana_, l. 1028.
[26] _Legend of Good Women_, ll. 425-6.
[27] See the ballade by Eustache Deschamps, quoted in Chaucer, _Works_, ed.
Morris, vol. 1, p. 82.
[28] _Minor Poems of the Vernon MS_, Pt. 1, E.E.T.S., _The Castle of Love_,
l. 72.
[29] E.E.T.S., _Cotton Vesp. MS._ ll. 233-5.
[30] E.E.T.S., l. 457.
[31] See _Cambridge History of English Literature_, v. 2, p. 313.
[32] Preface to _The Image of Governance_, 1549.
[33] _Sammlung Altenglischer Legenden_, ed. Horstmann, _Christine_, ll.
517-20.
[34] Preface, E.E.T.S.
[35] Capgrave, _St. Katherine of Alexandria_, E.E.T.S., Bk. 3, l. 21.
[36] In _Altenglische Legenden, Neue Folge_, l. 45.
[37] _Minor Poems of the Vernon MS._ Pt. 1, Appendix, p. 407.
[38] Introduction to Capgrave, _Lives of St. Augustine and St. Gilbert of
Sempringham_, E.E.T.S.
[39] _Sammlung Altenglischer Legenden_, p. 138, ll. 1183-8.
[40] _Three Prose Versions of Secreta Secretorum_, E.E.T.S., Epistle
Dedicatory to second.
[41] _The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man_, E.E.T.S.
[42] _Osbern Bokenam's Legenden_, _St. Agnes_, ll. 680-2.
[43] _Epistle of Sir John Trevisa_, in Pollard, _Fifteenth Century Prose
and Verse_, p. 208.
[44] In Sedgefield, _King Alfred's Version of Boethius_.
[45] Ed. White, 1852, ll. 41-4.
[46] Ll. 55-64.
[47] E.E.T.S., Preface.
[48] Pollar
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