After thus removing from consideration nos. 4, 11, 13, 17, 20, 25, 27, 28, 29, 40, and 41, half of the remaining 21 pieces have been considered. The only ones left over for consideration are nos. 6, 15, 18, 21, 22, 26, 30, 31, 32, 38. As to no. 6, there is some external evidence in its favour, which will be duly considered; but as to the rest, there is absolutely nothing to connect them with Chaucer beyond their almost accidental appearance in an edition by Wm. Thynne, published in 1532, i. e. _one hundred and thirty-two years after Chaucer's death_; and it has just been demonstrated that Thynne is obviously wrong in at least _eleven_ instances, and that he wittingly and purposely chose to throw into his edition poems which he _knew_ to have been written by Lydgate or by Gower! It is ridiculous to attach much importance to such testimony as this. And now let me discuss, as briefly as I can, the above-named poems separately. 6. _A goodlie balade of Chaucer_; begins--'Mother of norture, best beloued of all'; printed in Morris's edition, vi. 275; and in Bell's edition, iii. 413. I have little to say against this poem; yet the rime of _supposeth_ with _riseth_ (st. 8) is somewhat startling. It is clearly addressed to a lady named _Margaret_[224], as appears from her being likened to the daisy, and called the sun's daughter. I suspect it was merely attributed to Chaucer by association with the opening lines of the Legend of Good Women. The suggestion, in Bell's Chaucer, that it possibly refers to the Countess of Pembroke, is one of those bad guesses which are discreditable. Tyrwhitt shews, in note _n_ to his 'Appendix to the Preface,' that she must have died not later than 1370, whereas this Balade must be much later than that date; and I agree with him in supposing that _le Dit de la fleur de lis et de la Marguerite_, by Guillaume de Machault (printed in Tarbé's edition, 1849, p. 123), and the _Dittié de la flour de la Margherite_, by Froissart, may furnish us with the true key to those mystical compliments which Chaucer and others were accustomed to pay to the daisy. I wish to add that I am convinced that one stanza, probably the sixth is missing. It ought to form a triple Balade, i. e. three Balades of 21 lines each, each with its own refrain; but the second is imperfect. There seems to be some affectation about the letters beginning the stanzas which I cannot solve; these are _M_, _M_, _M_ (probably for Margaret) in the first Balade; _D_, _D_ in the second; and _J_, _C_, _Q_ in the third. The poet goes out of his way to bring in these letters. The result looks like _Margaret de Jacques_; but this guess does not help us.