The complete works of John Gower, volume 1 : $b The French works
FOOTNOTES:
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.
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).
LINENOTES for Poems:
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.
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.