There is also a remarkable passage at the end of his Persones Tale, the genuineness of which has been doubted by some, but it appears in the MSS., and I do not know of any sound reason for rejecting it. According to the Ellesmere MS., he here mentions--'the book of Troilus, the book also of Fame, the book of the xxv. Ladies[196], the book of the Duchesse, the book of seint Valentynes day of the parlement of briddes ... the book of the Leoun ... and many a song,' &c. Besides this, in the House of Fame, l. 729, he mentions his own name, viz. 'Geffrey.' We thus may be quite certain as to the genuineness of this poem, the longest and most important of all the Minor Poems[197], and we may at once add to the list the Book of the Duchesse, the next in order of length, and the Parliament of Foules, which is the third in the same order. We also learn that he composed some poems which have not come down to us, concerning which a few words may be useful. 1. 'Origines vpon the Maudeleyne' must have been a translation from a piece attributed to Origen. In consequence, probably, of this remark of the poet, the old editions insert a piece called the 'Lamentacion of Marie Magdaleine,' which has no pretence to be considered Chaucer's, and may be summarily dismissed. It is sufficient to notice that it contains a considerable number of rimes such as are never found in his genuine works, as, for example, the dissyllabic _dy-e_[198] riming with _why_ (st. 13); the plural adjective _ken-e_ riming with _y-ën_, i. e. eyes, which would, with this Chaucerian pronunciation, be no rime at all (st. 19); and thirdly, _disgised_ riming with _rived_, which is a mere assonance, and saves us from the trouble of further investigation (st. 25). See below, p. 37. 2. 'The wrechede engendrynge of mankynde' is obviously meant to describe a translation or imitation of the treatise by Pope Innocent III, entitled _De Miseria Conditionis Humanae_. The same treatise is referred to by Richard Rolle de Hampole, in his Pricke of Conscience, l. 498. It should be noted, however, that a few stanzas of this work have been preserved, by being incorporated (as quotations) in the Canterbury Tales, viz. in B 99-121, 421-7, 771-7, 925-31, 1135-8; cf. C 537-40, 551-2. See notes to these passages. 3. 'The book of the Leoun,' i. e. of the lion, was probably a translation of the poem called _Le Dit du Lion_ by Machault; see the note to l. 1024 of the Book of the Duchesse in the present volume. § 3. LYDGATE'S LIST OF CHAUCER'S POEMS.