21. _The lamentacion of Marie Magdaleine._ Fol. cccxviij. 22. _The remedie of Loue._ Fol. cccxxj., back. 23, 24. The complaint of Mars and Venus. Fol. cccxxiiij., back. (Printed as _one_ poem; but there is a new title--The complaint of Venus--at the beginning of the latter.) 25. _The letter of Cupide._ [By Hoccleve; _dated_ 1402.] Fol. cccxxvj., back. 26. _A Ballade in commendacion of our Ladie._ Fol. cccxxix. [By Lydgate; see p. 38.] 27. _Ihon Gower vnto the noble King Henry the .iiij._ Fol. cccxxx., back. [By Gower.] 28. _A saiyng of dan Ihon._ [By Lydgate.] Fol. cccxxxii., back[216]. 29. _Yet of the same._ [By Lydgate.] On the same page. 30. _Balade de bon consail._ Begins--If it be fall that God the list visite. (Only 7 lines.) On the same page. 31. _Of the Cuckowe and the Nightingale._ Fol. cccxxxiij. [By Hoccleve?] 32. _Balade with Envoy_ (no title). Begins--'O leude booke w_i_t_h_ thy foule rudenesse.' Fol. cccxxxiiij., back. 33. _Scogan, vnto the Lordes and Gentilmen of the Kinges house._ (This poem, by H. Scogan, quotes Chaucer's 'Gentilesse' in full.) Fol. cccxxxiiij., back. 34. Begins--'Somtyme the worlde so stedfast was and stable.' [Lak of Stedfastnesse.] Fol. cccxxxv., back. 35. Good counsail of Chaucer. [Truth.] Same page. 36. Balade of the village (_sic_) without paintyng. [Fortune.] Fol. cccxxxvj. 37. Begins--'Tobroken been the statutes hie in heauen'; headed _Lenuoye_. [Lenvoy to Scogan.] Fol. cccxxxvj., back. 38. _Poem in two stanzas of seven lines each._ Begins--'Go foorthe kyng, rule thee by Sapience.' Same page. 39. Chaucer to his emptie purse. Same page. 40. _A balade of good counseile translated out of Latin verses in-to Englishe, by Dan Ihon lidgat cleped the monke of Buri._ Begins--'COnsyder well euery circumstaunce.' Fol. cccxxxvij. 41. _A balade in the Praise and commendacion of master Geffray Chauser for his golden eloquence._ (Only 7 lines.) Same leaf, back. [See p. 56.] § 9. PART II. ADDITIONS BY JOHN STOWE. At the top of fol. cccxl. is the following remark:-- ¶ Here foloweth certaine woorkes of Geffray Chauser, whiche hath not heretofore been printed, and are gathered and added to this booke by Ihon Stowe. 42. A balade made by Chaucer, teching what is gentilnes[217]. [Gentilesse.] Fol. cccxl. 43. A Prouerbe [_read_ Prouerbs] agaynst couitise and negligence. [Proverbs.] Same page. 44. A balade which Chaucer made agaynst women vnconstaunt. Same page. [Certainly genuine, in my opinion; but here relegated to an Appendix, to appease such as cannot readily apprehend my reasons. Cf. p. 26.] 45. _A balade which Chaucer made in the praise or rather dispraise, of women for their doublenes._ [By Lydgate.] Begins--'This world is full of variaunce.' Same page. 46. _This werke folowinge was compiled by Chaucer, and is caled the craft of louers._ Fol. cccxli. [Written in 1448.] 47. _A Balade._ Begins--'Of their nature they greatly the_m_ delite.' Fol. cccxli., back. [Quotes from no. 56.]