Thus hooping that yo{u} will accepte in good and frendlye parte, these my whatsoever conceytes vttered vnto you, (to the ende Chawcers Woorkes by much conference and many iudgmentes mighte at leng[t]he obteyne their true p{er}fect{i}one and glory, as I truste they shall, yf yt please godde to lend me tyme and leysure to reprinte, correcte, and comente the same after the manner of the Italians who have largely comented Petrarche;) I sett end to these matters; comyttinge yo{u} to god, and me to your curtesye. Clerkenwell Greene, the xvi of december 1599. Your lovinge frende, FRANCIS THYNNE. INDEX. Abandone, p. 33. Absalom, whether he coughed or knocked, p. 42. Aketon, a sleeveless jacket of plate for the war, p. 24. Arcite, his intellect, p. 40. Authentic, a thing of authority, p. 33. Bath, Wife of, her Prologue, p. 44. Begyns, superstitious women, p. 29. Besant, a coin of Bizantium, p. 25. Burgersh, Bartholomew de, sent into Henault for Philippa, p. 12. Burgo, Serlo de, built Knaresborough Castle, p. 18. Cambuscan, or Caius, Cause, p. 43. Campaneus, reading of, p. 34. Chaucer, MSS., collection made by William Thynne, p. 5. Chaucer, MSS., dispersed by his son, p. 8. Chaucer’s parentage, p. 9. Chaucer and the Franciscan friar, p. 16. Chaucer’s marriage, p. 17. Chaucer’s coat-of-arms, p. 10. Chaucer’s children, p. 17. Chaucer, his education, p. 13. Chaucer, his skyll in Geometrye, p. 11. Chaucer, his ancestors, whether merchants of the staple or no, pp. 12, 13. Chaucer, the stemme of, p. 17. Chaucer, his children and their advancement, p. 17. Chaucer, Thomas, married to Maude, daughter of Sir John Burgersh, p. 18. Chaucer, his dream, not the book of the Duchess, pp. 22, 23. Chaucer, early editions of, p. 56. Chausier, one who hoseth or booteth a man, p. 9. Citrination, a term of Alchemy, p. 30. Colin Clout, written in William Thynne’s house at Erith, p. 7. Drida, Queen, slayeth Kenelm, p. 47. Fermentacione, a term of Alchemy, p. 25. Florius, concerning, p. 35. Forage, winter provision, p. 30. Garland, oken of Emelye, p. 37. Gaunt, John of, his children born pre-nupt, p. 17. Gaunt, John of, his incontinency, p. 23. Gaunt, John of, his marriage, p. 23. Gower, query whether of the Gowers of Stittenham, p. 14. Gower, his greeting to Chaucer, p. 13. Harlottes, King of, p. 57. Heroner, a hawk for a heron, p. 31. Hyppe, the berye of the eglantine, p. 31. John of France, his ransome, p. 36. Knaresborough Castle, built by Serlo de Burgo, p. 18. Kenelm, slain by Queen Drida, p. 47. Leefe, for lothe, p. 42. Lincoln, Hugh of, p. 44. Mortone, John, Earl of, the manner of his creation, p. 16. Merecenrycke, p. 50. Navarre, Joan of, married to Henry IV., p. 18. Neville, Richard, Earl of Salisbury, his wife, p. 21. Nowell, meaning of, p. 32.