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The complete works of John Gower, volume 1 : $b The French works

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FOOTNOTES:

[A] I prefer the term ‘Anglo-Norman’ to ‘Anglo-French,’ partly because it is the established and well-understood name for the language in question, and partly for the reasons given in Paul’s Grundriss der germ. Philologie, vol. i. p. 807. It must however be remembered that the term indicates not a dialect popularly spoken and with a true organic development, but a courtly and literary form of speech, confined to the more educated class of Society, and therefore especially liable to be influenced by continental French and to receive an influx of learned words taken directly from Latin. The name implies that in spite of such influences it retained to a great extent its individuality, and that its development was generally on the lines of the Norman speech from which it arose.
[B] The references to the Balades and Traitié are by stanza, unless otherwise indicated.
[C] But the same word in other connexions is a monosyllable, as q’ils lées en soiont 28132, and rhymes with magesté, degré, &c., 27575, 28093, 28199.
[D] We have in Mir. 6115 Oseë dist en prophecie, and so too Oseë 11018, Judeë 20067, and Galileë 29239, but Galilée in rhyme with retrové 28387.
[E] Cp. Romania, xii. 194. I am much indebted to M. Paul Meyer’s notes on the Vie de S. Grégoire, as well as to his other writings.
[F] See Sturmfels in Anglia, viii. 220, and Behrens, Franz. Studien, v. 84. I take this opportunity of saying that I am indebted both to the former’s Altfranz. Vokalismus im Mittelenglischen and to the latter’s Beiträge zur Geschichte der französischen Sprache in England.
[G] Those who quote eschiue, siue, as from Gower, e.g. Sturmfels, in Anglia, ix, are misled by Ellis.
[H] Tanner remarks, ‘est tamen nescio quid in nominibus mysterii et, ut ita dicam, conspiratio, utpote unius ab altero pendentis.’ Biblioth. p. 336.
[I] A list of poems in which this stanza is used is given in Romania, ix. 231, by M. Gaston Raynaud.
[J] Under this head I do not include the termination (-ont or -ent) of the 3 pers. pl. pres. tense, which was apparently to some extent accented, see ll. 1265, 1803, 1820, &c., and in one stanza even bears the rhyme (20294 ff.).
[K] Perhaps, however, dame was in these cases really a monosyllable, as apparently in Mir. 6733, 13514, 16579.
[L] It must not be assumed however that the text of the Roxburghe Club edition accurately represents that of the MS. If such variations as autre (for lautre), ii. l. 21, En qui iv. 17, De vii. 6, Nest pas vii. 13, xiv. 7, &c., prendre x. 20, et uns xv. 15, El fait xvi. 18, and so on, are unnoticed in this edition, that is not owing to the negligence of the present editor, but because they are not in fact readings of the MS.
[M] For example B gives us the following variations in the first two balades:

Trait. i. l. 4 gouernance 6 discret 13 bon 20 et (for a) ii. l. 1. la spirit qui ert 2 Est 4 Qui ert om. dont 5 de (for le) 7 bone.

There are more bad mistakes here in two balades than in the whole text of the Traitié as given by any one of the four best MSS. On the other hand, ‘creatoris’ in the heading of the first balade, and ‘homme’ (for ‘lomme’) in ii. 11, are mistakes of the German editor.

[N] MS. Camb. Univ. Add. 3035
[O] Owing to the loss of a part of the leaf (f.12) on which the Latin occurs, the text of ll. 9-12 and of the first prose quotation which follows is imperfect. It runs thus:
. . . . . pullus quo nunquam gracior vllus
. . . . regit que tirannica colla subegit
. . . ile cepit oleum quo regna recepit
. . . ri iuncta stipiti noua stirps redit vncta.
. . il proficiet inimicus in eo et filius iniqui
. . . non apponet nocere ei.

The missing words are supplied from other copies of the same lines, which are found in a somewhat different arrangement in the All Souls’ and Glasgow MSS. of the ‘Vox Clamantis’ (the prose quotations in the latter only).

[P] faciat Glasg. faciet Trent.

LINENOTES for Poems:

1 12 enauant
2 55 enfist
3 87 qenvist
4 113 endirray
5 118 nenfuist
6 119 enmangast
7 120 enserroit
8 198 enapres
9 213 plustricherouse
10 217 agre
11 254 lor with erasure (prob. of a second r)
12 269 plusauant
13 276 grantement
14 320 plusbass
15 397 grantement
16 404 endirroit
17 499 enconsaillant
18 528(R) senparti
19 548 plusbass
20 645 nensoiez
21 658 enfiront
22 719 Enaguaitant
23 735 plusauant
24 761 Qu
25 808 endirra
26 910 plusque
27 927 plusqueinte
28 971 plusauant
29 998 Enascultant
30 1016 sentrestoiont
31 1092 senvait
32 1131 adire
33 1158 enprent
34 1183 enest
35 1265 enparlont
36 1368 enpert
37 1386 plusdigne
38 1413 endirra
39 1488 Surquidour
40 1522 endevient
41 1700 plusdouls
42 1704 endie
43 1715 enad
44 1740 plusauant
45 1758 enest
46 1896 enot
47 1901 plushalt
48 1908 plustost
49 1949 Enrecontant
50 1990 Senvante
51 2067 lenchastie
52 2072 entencant
53 2090 enporte
54 2126 la faucon ram in ras
55 2164 ensoit
56 2175 enavient
57 2181 enperdist
58 2208 enprent
59 2242 enporte
60 2284 pluspres
61 2292 plushalt
62 2348 pluspuissant
63 2374 ce
64 2391 enfuist
65 2418 enot
66 2444 plusfort
67 2446 Enblasphemant
68 2460 enpurra
69 2462 plusgreuable
70 2486 plussages
71 2733 plusorde
72 2750 adire
73 2760 arme ensont
74 2870 enoccit
75 2911 plusgreuousement
76 2955 deliurer, cp. l. 4832
77 2979 Plusiust plusdouls plusdebonnaire
78 3000 enamendant
79 3009 enert
80 3013 male bouche
81 3024 ensoit
82 3044 plushaltement
83 3056 enfait
84 3065 pluspres
85 3075 pluspriuez
86 3081 pluspriue
87 3160 male
88 3191 pluspres
89 3211 aderere
90 3233 enait
91 3330 enprent
92 3376 esbandy
93 3377 qensoit
94 3451 aderere
95 3471 falsemblant
96 3556 envoet
97 3624 enfait
98 3643 plusfortz
99 3671 Jose̅p̅
100 3676 enest
101 3695 ensentira
102 3714 aderere
103 3716 challon
104 3727 Qenfist
105 3739 enad
106 3801 plusfeloun
107 3809 Ensentira
108 3816 enest
109 3835 plussages
110 3836 plusfortz ... sa lute
111 3855 eny
112 3878 pluspres
113 3915 Ensubuertant
114 3954 pluschald
115 4029 endoie
116 4091 enpoet
117 4109 This line and 4116 are written over erasures, in a hand probably the same as that which appears on f. 157 vo.
118 4169 ensauoit
119 4178 enprendre
120 4190 on
121 4206 enfaire
122 4223 Envolt
123 4259 aluy
124 4296 ensente
125 4364 plusfort
126 4415 enpoet
127 4515 plusauant
128 4569 endevient
129 4632 plusseine
130 4639 endeuient
131 4660 senpleigne
132 4714 endoit
133 4745 plussoudeinent
134 4832 deliurer; cp. l. 2955
135 4856 entrouons
136 4860 enad
137 4874 Encompassant
138 4918 endormant
139 5146 plusfort
140 5188 enveillant
141 5191 Enfait
142 5193 encontroeuant
143 5338 plusfort
144 5386 Qal lun (cp. 5591)
145 5460 endoit
146 5464 enporte
147 5483 senpoet
148 5494 Enpert
149 5564 demaintenant
150 5576 enportera
151 5585 entariant
152 5640 landes
153 5651 nenprent
154 After l. 5879 one leaf of the MS. is lost, which contained 190 lines and the title introducing the description of ‘Necligence,’ the fifth daughter of Accidie.
155 6076 enporte
156 6079 senvait.
157 6187 pluschiere
158 6191 aderere
159 6262 lesperner (for lesperuer)
160 6295 endonne
161 6308 Senpleint
162 6367 plusfortz
163 6368 plussage
164 6394 plussoubtils
165 6414 enfait
166 6464 enquide
167 6561 enporte
168 6584 enfait
169 6762 plusfiere et plusgrieueine
170 6845 plusfier
171 6861 plusriches
172 6862 enserra
173 6904 enest
174 6939 ensentont
175 6946 plussage
176 6992 ensoit
177 7123 endisant
178 7162 enfait
179 7181 aux in ras
180 7224 enrit
181 7258 ensoient
182 7275 plusprochein
183 7300 plusauant
184 7380 plushault
185 7433 enchaca
186 7440 plusauant
187 7454 qatat (?)
188 7458 ensont
189 7483 ensciet
190 7507 tenoit
191 7538 plusdur
192 7553 Plusfort
193 7639 enparlant
194 7651 sen fieurera
195 7670 enest
196 7681 enparlant
197 7802 pluscheris
198 7806 plusmeillour
199 7857 plusfort
200 7899 pourparler
201 8004 aderere
202 8021 endeuient
203 8024 Senpart
204 8083 ensuchant
205 8147 plussapient
206 8158 plusfort
207 8176 enparlont
208 8178 enest
209 8183 qensoit
210 8228 pluslarges
211 8251 plussot
212 8310 enest
213 8312, 8317 endeuient
214 8322 Enprent
215 8394 enest
216 8444 enfait
217 8455 senpourra
218 8459 devoit
219 8591 Mainz ainz
220 8598 endolt
221 8602 enput
222 8619 enad
223 8620 enest
224 8626 envoet
225 8683 enait
226 8771 qenest
227 8775 Enduist
228 8782 enparlont
229 8848 plusfiere
230 8858 enplourant
231 8897 autiele
232 8907 pluschier
233 8909 autiel
234 8974 enporte
235 8999 plusfrele
236 9049 enporte
237 9064 enfuist
238 9101 qenfait
239 9152 plusbelle ... plustendre
240 9177 enfait
241 9184 Cestassauoir
242 9269 Iourduy
243 9285 Enchantant
244 9295 ensuspirant
245 9296 enreguardant
246 9343 plusgrieue
247 9509 noun seint
248 9524 plusauant
249 9566 plusgrieue
250 9618 plusvile
251 9669 plusfort
252 9684 lenguarist
253 9737 plusauant
254 9746 autresfois
255 9763 enpry
256 9786 mettroit
257 9868 enfay
258 10012 plustost
259 10026 envolt
260 10038 plusauant
261 10061 qensont
262 10115 plussouent
263 10168 ensoit
264 10197 ensache
265 10292 envuillont
266 10300 enporte
267 10334 iensuy
268 10345 entroueras
269 10380 enfist
270 10381 enpriant
271 10382 ensoit
272 10416 enait
273 10435 plusbenignement
274 10488 enest
275 10499 endonner
276 10506 isuele
277 10559 Plustost
278 10562 plussouerein
279 10604 Encontemplant
280 10634 plusauant
281 10650 Enattendant
282 10734 enait
283 10746 enait
284 10809 plushalt
285 10812 plusdigne
286 10818 enrescoit
287 10882 Qenprent
288 10896 ensoit
289 10918 enfuissent
290 10939 plushalt
291 10943 au Iourduy
292 10954 ensont
293 11006 adroit
294 11015 plussouent
295 11017 enas
296 11053 enconseillant
297 11062 Maisque
298 11090 enprent
299 11155 enpoet
300 11191 enporta
301 11194 enaueront
302 11297 plusriche et pluspuissant
303 11309 enprist
304 11424 senpartist
305 11440 plusvileins
306 11544 enfait
307 11565 plusnobile
308 11715 plusvein
309 11718 plusmaluois
310 11742 ensoit
311 11835 iendirroie
312 11849 in rasura
313 11859 plussaine.
314 11911 enest.
315 11939 lenguarise
316 11973 pluspres
317 11982 ensont
318 12026 enot
319 12032 Entournant
320 12080 plussouerein
321 12094 plusgentil
322 12168 enmorra
323 12207 enporte
324 12232 enfesoit
325 12243 avenir
326 12291 enfesoiont
327 12400 plustost
328 12430 plusfort
329 12455 plussages
330 12468 endevient
331 12507 plussage
332 12510 Enquide
333 12660 Maisque
334 12672 Ensoit
335 12716 enait
336 12837 enferray
337 12880 pluspoueres
338 13014 endeuient
339 13043 enessamplant
340 13051 enfremist
341 13054 senvait
342 13057 plusauant
343 13061 ensupportant
344 13083 enparlera
345 13112 plusforte
346 13119 nensoit
347 13123 Ensoit
348 13126 plussouereine
349 13175 iensente
350 13185 aderere
351 13191 Enporte
352 13241 plusexcellentz
353 13245 enfiront
354 13247 plusbeneure
355 13303 ypuet
356 13347 plushaltement
357 13350 plusardantment
358 13359 plushalte
359 13428 plussouple
360 13446 Enpuissont
361 13503 en fin
362 13524 Plusque
363 13546 enait
364 13551 ienferroie
365 13614 pluscheri
366 13652 endevient
367 13686 enauera
368 13700 enlanguist
369 13787 au Iourduy
370 13788 Senvont
371 13801 qenapres
372 13864 qasercher
373 13882 plusauant
374 13883 encontemplant
375 13919 envait
376 13955 Et
377 14064 in ras.
378 14067 plusfort
379 14079 plusgrant
380 14080 plussaluage
381 14082 plusque
382 14086 envait
383 14143 plusfort
384 14219 Enprent
385 14228 nenquiert
386 14371 senvont
387 14436 enont
388 14525 Envint
389 14531 enfuist
390 14546 Pimer
391 14548 ensoit
392 14568 contemplacioun
393 14571 plushalte
394 14572 encontemplant
395 14575 plusvaillable
396 14586 pluslegier
397 14622 Maisque
398 14687 enest
399 14715 plusfort
400 14718 ensente
401 14721 plusprocheine
402 14740 qenportoit
403 14772 enserra
404 14793 enserra
405 14885 endie
406 14887 envolt
407 14925 par viene
408 14940 ensoit
409 14981 in ras.
410 14996 enfist
411 15012 endoy
412 15047 plussouent
413 15055 enporterons
414 15078 enrescoiue
415 15100 ensoit
416 15105 plusfort
417 15106 Plusque
418 15401 enert
419 15452 enserra
420 15581 Enpoet
421 15596 enont
422 15597 encuillont
423 15642 qadonner
424 15689 Ensoie
425 15710 entrouons
426 15732 aderere
427 15742 enas
428 15755 plusgreuouse
429 15774 entraire
430 15783 plussages
431 15813 au Iourduy
432 15914 plusparfit
433 15935 lensache
434 16062 enporte
435 16138 Sa
436 16142 plushalt
437 16152 envaldront
438 16156 enert
439 16194 entient
440 16290 entaste
441 16291 entoise
442 16343 endolt
443 16377 ensoit
444 16400 plusdigne
445 16401 plusmalnorri
446 16559 pluspetit et plusestroit
447 16585 bonne guarde
448 16653 plusfort
449 16683 bonne garde
450 16745 auor
451 16788 nensoit
452 16822 enait
453 16830 plusgente
454 16883 nenfuissietz
455 16891 delis
456 17037 plushalte
457 17039 plushaltement
458 17042 plusfamilier
459 17045 plushalt
460 17073 plushalteine
461 17093 enparloit
462 17238 enfist
463 17241 aderere
464 17273 enest
465 17323 iensuy
466 17351 plusauant
467 17358 ensoit
468 17363 Pluslargement
469 17416 entient
470 17441 enporront
471 17570 le
472 17626 ensoit
473 17632 endonna
474 17652 enserroie
475 17712 pluscheri
476 17735 sipres
477 17769 ensoient
478 17824 Enfaisant
479 17846 senvont
480 17882 enfaire
481 17902 endie
482 17952 plushalte
483 18028 plusfort
484 18036 enserra
485 18077 ensoit
486 18115 enad
487 18154 enfait
488 18186 endoit
489 18339 plusauant
490 18386 qenfuist
491 18415 plusfort
492 18430 plusauant
493 18439 lenvoit
494 18443 endoit
495 18480 plusfranc
496 18506 enserront
497 18510 Plustost enserretz
498 18581 plusforte
499 18610 Enpartira
500 18691 pluschere
501 18694 aderere
502 18704 enfont
503 18727 pluspres
504 18838 qenporte
505 18972 iendy
506 19023 Pluspres
507 19108 Dauoltire (re in ras.)
508 After 19122 one leaf, containing 192 lines, is lost.
509 19400 qenparle
510 19454 nensoit
511 19498 enpoet
512 After 19506 two leaves, containing 384 lines, are lost.
513 19920 senvont
514 19961 encompleignant
515 20030 plussage
516 20044 enont
517 20125 plussouent
518 20135 senvont
519 20141 plushaitez
520 20284 au Iourduy
521 20307 maisqil
522 20375 Souentesfois
523 20383 plusbelle
524 20442 endonneront
525 20527 Plusque
526 20555 enserras
527 20592 enfait
528 20647 au Iourduy
529 20648 Plusfiers ensont
530 20651 plusque
531 20668 plusfiers
532 20679 plusbien
533 20712 enboit
534 21017 plusfin
535 21043 plusauant
536 21129 nemye
537 21181 plusauant
538 The following appears on the margin of the MS., opposite ll. 21266-78; the ends of the lines have been cut away by the binder:—

Nota quod super hii .. | que in ista pa .. | secundum commune dictum d .. | tribus scripta pa .. | transgressos simp(?) .. | et non alios mater .. | tangit: vnde h .. | qui in ordine .. | gressi sunt ad .. | reuertentes prius .. | in foueam cada .. | hac eminente .. | tura cercius pre .. | niantur.

539 21282 Endorra
540 21311 senparceiuera
541 21396 Plusque
542 21400 lenvoit
543 21481 dist
544 21568 enestoit
545 21608 enfist
546 21740 denhalt
547 21751 enchastier
548 After 21786 one leaf, containing 192 lines, is lost.
549 21998 enporras
550 22096 Plusque
551 22133 Iourduy
552 22168 qenot
553 22316 entollist
554 22340 ya
555 After 22359 two leaves are lost.
556 22751 ensoit
557 22778 plusfort
558 22856 entroua
559 22874 dix
560 22964 ya
561 22974 enest
562 22998 enont
563 23003 enconteray
564 23060 enad
565 23062 envait
566 23086 aguarder
567 23114 encherra
568 23126 enait
569 23173 yad
570 23184 ensuffrit
571 23241 nenvuillont
572 23251 Senvait
573 23259 Engouernant
574 23264 ensente
575 23265 enpuet
576 23268 iendoie
577 23326 arebours
578 23402 plushaltain
579 23470 plusvil
580 23581 entermine
581 23592 (R) Cestassauoir
582 23727 nassiegiera
583 23742 enpaie
584 23769 cestassauoir
585 23820 envoet
586 23973 envoit
587 24083 enfaisons
588 24093 ensentent
589 24188 enprent
590 24295 engaigneront
591 24322 enont
592 24453 enprens
593 24456 enas
594 24459 plusvil
595 24533 couroy
596 24551 enpromet
597 24600 enporront
598 24623 plussage enest
599 24631 plusque
600 24648 plusforte
601 24657 Enpoet
602 24682 enad
603 24750 plussouent
604 24787 Iourduy
605 24870 enduist
606 24958, 24968 plusque
607 24978 ensente
608 25035 cestassauoir
609 25146 enad
610 25223 plusnotable
611 25224 alouer
612 25268 enad
613 25295 plusloigns
614 25395 plusriche
615 25397 Maisque
616 25454 Sibien
617 25464 enverra
618 25469 Plusnoblement
619 25507 plusque
620 25511 plusque
621 25513 plussouent
622 25542 enpoet
623 25563 senvait
624 25566 entrait
625 25577 Maisque
626 25599 plussouent
627 25661 Plusriche
628 25699 Ceste
629 25749 Plusque
630 25764 plusviels
631 25770 enprent
632 25790 Maisque
633 25846 autiel
634 25853 senfuiont
635 25863 senvait
636 25881 Plusque
637 25896 enpaie
638 25900 enpert
639 25982 auor
640 26044 qenboit
641 26062 envoet
642 26151 enert
643 26166 enad
644 26278 plussage
645 26315 plussouent
646 26321 enfalt
647 26378 plusfranc
648 26397 ensoit
649 26446 endoit
650 26507 ensoit
651 26530 plusvilein
652 26588 ensont
653 26635 enavient
654 26756 Enduist
655 26842 nenvoet
656 26848 qenporte
657 26866 envaldra
658 26867 enserront
659 26900 plusvaillable
660 26905 qensauoit
661 26955 fieu et mer
662 27093 plussufficant
663 27096 plusauant
664 27126 plushaltain
665 27129 en herite
666 27142 entolt
667 27147 lenporroit
668 27185 plusnoblez
669 27207 enpuet
670 27216 enait
671 27255 aviler
672 27283 plusloins
673 27341 enchantant
674 27364 enpense
675 27414 Plusord plusvil plusfals plusfrele
676 27426 iensuy
677 27475 enscieuont
678 27574 plusbeneure
679 27598 angle
680 27640 enont
681 27665 enfuist
682 27696 enparloiont
683 27780 enfaire
684 27798 denhalt
685 27841 acoustummance
686 27922 enfuist
687 27963 enlouas
688 28132 ensoiont
689 28190 acoustumance
690 28222 enot
691 28274 enot
692 28334 plusfort
693 28408 enporroit
694 28460 envait
695 28461 qenfist
696 28490 enfuist
697 28571 enpot
698 28627 enont
699 28659 aderere
700 28692 endoit
701 28727 senvait
702 28773 denhalt
703 28779 senvont
704 28789 enont
705 28917 ensoit
706 28923 enpensant
707 28936 Ensuspirant
708 28941 f. in ras.
709 28955 enes
710 28960 enpert
711 29079 Plusque
712 29092 Encompleignant
713 29109 denhalt
714 29127 Enas
715 29148 enas
716 29211 enas
717 29215 enporte
718 29219 enont
719 29220 enas
720 29228 enavalant
721 29231 senvait
722 29241, 29296 senvait
723 29265 senvont
724 29312 senva
725 29328 qensont
726 29344 enfuist
727 29371 plusfort
728 29395 iensuy
729 29454, 29476 Plusque
730 29493 No
731 29521 plussouent
732 29522 Denhalt
733 29668 enfait
734 29688 ensoiont
735 29693 Maisqen
736 29772 masqil
737 29848 enont
738 29886 yviens
739 29936 plusbelle
740 A few leaves are lost at the end of the MS.
741 The authority for the Balades is the MS. at Trentham Hall.
742 II The damage to f. 12 of the MS. has caused the loss of a part of this Balade and of the next.
743 26-28 The ends of these lines are somewhat damaged and have been conjecturally restored.
744 27 Courte
745 21 enauerai
746 II 4 qil ses ioiera
747 17 noueƚƚ
748 III 10 tielment
749 13 plusforte
750 14, 21, 25 Enattendant
751 IIII* In the MS. this and the preceding Balade are both numbered IIII.
752 VII 5 Pouceo
753 VIII 12 sibon
754 IX 7 Qa pres
755 19 plussouent
756 IX 37 poestes
757 41 plusbelle
758 X 9 plussouent
759 XI 6 plusbelle
760 7, 14, 21, 25 plusamerouse
761 15 Iieo
762 XIII 8 al loill
763 17 noun suffisance
764 19 endevient
765 XIIII 2 Een
766 XIIII 15 doules
767 XV 17 lesprees
768 XVI 7 Com bien
769 11 endeuient
770 16 plusgrief
771 26 plusexcellente
772 XVIII 12 plusdure
773 20 Qell
774 XIX 1 plussalvage
775 XIX 18 tout dis
776 24 Cage
777 XXI 18 Terstout
778 XXII 19 ensi
779 XXIII 22 plusnoble
780 XXV 2 plussovent
781 4 mout(?)
782 21 endoie
783 XXVI 22 plusqe
784 XXX 5 Le Nief] Perhaps rather Le vent
785 12 circes
786 20 Plusque
787 XXXI 16 ales
788 22 enparlont
789 XXXII 5 nuisand
790 XXXII 9 si siqau devant
791 XXXV 10 deson
792 XXXVI 14 nai
793 XXXVI 25 nai
794 XXXVII 1 plusioiouse
795 3 Ruge
796 19 refiers
797 XXXVIII 9 Quilnait
798 23 hosteƚƚ
799 XXXIX 3 enestes
800 XLI 18 le sciet
801 XLII 4 plusqueinte
802 12 constregnte
803 XLIII 1 Plustricherous
804 2 qercules
805 3 qeneas
806 XLIII 19 par Tonope
807 XLIIII 23 endie
808 XLV 5 endevient pluspreciouse
809 XLVI 17 endeviens
810 XLVIII 4 e (for et)
811 8 La mier
812 11 La halt
813 20 fors banie
814 XLVIII 25 touz
815 XLIX 1 ales
816 19 cest
817 L 6 plusfiers
818 LI 7 pluscherie
819 15 ceƚƚ
820 The text is that of F (Fairfax 3) with collation of S (All Souls’ 98), G (Glasgow, Hunterian Mus. T. 2. 17), and T (Trentham Hall). A full collation of B (Bodl. 294) is given for the heading and it is occasionally cited afterwards.

Heading. In G as follows: Cest vn traitie quel Iohan Gower ad fait selonc les auctours touchant lestat de matrimoine dont les amantz marietz se pourront essampler a tenir la foi de lour seintes espousailes.

S T are imperfect at the beginning.

821 I Margin dominium possidebit] regiminis dominium possidebat B
822 1 Puis qil B Pvsquil F cy B englois B
823 2 celluy B
824 3 franceis B
825 4 vn B vne F solonc lez B pur ensampler B
826 5 foy B seints B
827 6 purront B
828 7 Raison ert Conestable G
829 I 12 Du G
830 14, 21 Raison ert Conestable G
831 15 reson G
832 II 9 The text of T begins here
833 11 enserra T
834 13 toute T
835 III 1 plusparfit MSS.
836 4 The text of S begins here
837 5 quiert S T G quier F
838 7 seint S T
839 8 quant T
840 14 seint S esglise F G
841 21 esglise F
842 IV Margin libidine S
843 1 sa queinte G
844 3 lui G B guiliers S T G plusqueinte T
845 6 com S T
846 IV 15 sa queinte T
847 20 sacorde S T
848 V 1 merveile S resoun T
849 3 puiss T eleccioun T
850 13 tressentisme T
851 15 lespousails T beneicoun F T beneiceon S beneicon G
852 16 esglise S
853 17 dissolucion S
854 20 vengance T
855 VI 7, 14, 21 demonstre T
856 8 eloigne S G
857 9 destine S
858 10 sanz om. S
859 11 piere S G T
860 18 De S sont S
861 VII Margin ammouit T
862 2 darrein T
863 4 de om. S
864 6 bataile T
865 8 celle T
866 10 fille T
867 VII 16 vengee S G
868 19 tant om. S qil S G
869 20 contretaile S G T
870 VIII 3 loos T
871 4 encourt S T
872 10 luy T
873 11 quell S G quelle T
874 15 cloos T
875 17 queux T en clos MSS.
876 18 com S T
877 IX Margin Clemestram S T G
878 4 croniqe S
879 6 ceo] se F qil S T G
880 17 repentace S
881 18 Orestes T
882 X 3 Estoit S
883 4 quoi T se om. S
884 5 way T
885 6 Quant T
886 7 halt T
887 X Margin vnam S
888 8 Tarquinus T pensee S T G
889 10 nul T
890 12 cotell F T G coutell S
891 14 halt T
892 Margin Paulinam T (by correction) G Paulinum F S
893 18 embastiront T
894 19 iuggement S T G
895 20 prestre S T G
896 21 halt T
897 XI Margin Elmeges S Gurmundi S G Abbinique F
898 5 fille T
899 8 Ciel T
900 9 seintefie T
901 12 aillours S
902 18 estoiont S T G ars S
903 19 quot T
904 20 iuggement S T G
905 XII Margin transmutatum S T B
906 3 auoient T
907 6 li T
908 8 resoun T G
909 10 proteccioun G
910 16 nee T
911 17 decoccioun T G
912 18 deuouree T
913 19 transforme T
914 20 qui fuist T
915 XIII 6 enfist T
916 7 haut F
917 8 moult ... Roy T
918 10 coy T
919 XIII 11 falsisine F
920 17 esfroi T
921 19 cel T
922 XIV Margin Bersabe S sepulcro F B sepulture S T G
923 1 lumaine T
924 3 la Bible S la bible T G enseigne S
925 8 quil S G
926 9 Qil S
927 10 Mais quil S
928 12 un autre] lautre F
929 XV Margin exremos S G
930 XV Owing to a slight damage to the leaf the beginnings of the first ten lines and a few syllables of the marginal summary are wanting in F.
931 1 lestoire S G
932 4 de S G
933 6 la T
934 8 trust ... ffoire T
935 11 plusdouls F T G
936 12 plusque F G
937 14 oiseal T
938 XVI 1 es S G B et T de F
939 4 condicioun T
940 6 Romeines T
941 9 endoit F T
942 10 poeit S
943 XVI 11 baundoun S G
944 12 Agardes G comparison S G
945 16 plusfort MSS. professioun S
946 18 resoun S T
947 19 perfeccion S G
948 20 cell S
949 XVII Margin due F
950 3 quant T
951 6 troue T
952 16 primere F monstre (?) T
953 17 Quant T
954 XVIII Margin adinvicem T
955 2 cil S
956 4 aillours T
957 6 enad T
958 9 endroit T
959 12 Pourceo S T G purvoie S G
960 13 quil S G naid G
961 14 soun F son S T G
962 19 com T
963 23 Iehan S G
964 25 foruoie G
965 27 en die S endie F T G
966 T omits the ‘Carmen de variis’ etc., ‘Est amor ... participantur ita,’ and combines the eight lines, ‘Lex docet auctorum,’ with the first piece ‘Quis sit vel qualis’. S has the title thus: Carmen quod Iohannes Gower super amoris multiplici varietate sub compendio metrice composuit.
967 10 tenobrosa S
968 The last two lines are omitted in B
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