'Eke there be knightes old of the garter That in hir time did right worthily.' The order of the Garter was established in 1349; and we should expect that more than half a century would elapse before it would be natural to refer to the Knights as _old_ knights, who did worthily _in their time_. Of course the poem cannot be Chaucer's, and it is hardly necessary to look for rimes such as he never uses; yet such may easily be found, such as _grew_, pt. t. sing., riming with the dissyllabic _hew-e_, _new-e_; _sid-e_ with _espide_, pp. (Ch. _espy-ed_); _eie_, eye (Ch. _y-ë_) with _sie_, saw (Ch. _sy_); and _plesure_[233] with _desire_; after which we may stop. In 1602, Speght issued another edition, in which, according to Bonn's edition of Lowndes' _Bibliographer's Manual_, two more pieces were added, viz. the prose treatise against Friars called _Jack Upland_, and the genuine poem entitled 'A. B. C.' But this is not all; for I find, in a still later edition, that of 1687, which is said to be a 'reimpression of Speght's edition of 1602,' that, at the very end of all the prefatory matter, on what was probably a spare blank leaf, three more poems appear, which might as well have been consigned to oblivion. But the editors of Chaucer evidently thought that a thing once added must be added for ever, and so these three productions are retained in Bell's Chaucer, and must therefore be noticed with the rest. I find, however, that they had been printed previously, viz. at the end of the Table of Contents in ed. 1542 and ed. 1550, where they are introduced quite casually, without a word of explanation. Moreover, they are copied from MS. Trin. Coll. Cam. R. 3. 15, a MS. which also contains the Canterbury Tales; and no doubt, this fact suggested their insertion. See Todd's Illustrations of Chaucer, p. 120. 64. _Jack Upland._ An invective against friars, in prose, worth printing, but obviously not Chaucer's. 65. Chaucer's A. B. C. Genuine; here printed as poem no. I. 66. _Eight goodly questions with their answers_; printed in Bell's Chaucer, vol. iv. p. 421; nine 7-line stanzas. In st. 3, _tree_ rimes with _profer_; but _tree_ is an obvious misprint for _cofer_! In st. 5, the gerund _to lie_ (Ch. _ly-e_) rimes with _honestie_ (Ch. _honestee_). This is quite enough to condemn it. But it may be Lydgate's. 67. _To the Kings most noble Grace, and to the Lords and Knights of the Garter_; pr. as above, p. 424; eight 8-line stanzas. In MS. Phillipps 8151, and written by Hoccleve; it much resembles his poem printed in _Anglia_, v. 23. The date may be 1416. The 'King' is Henry V.