In this MS. there is also a curious and rather long poem upon the game of chess; the board is called the _cheker_, and the pieces are the _kyng_, the _quene or the fers_ (described on fol. 294), the _rokys_ (_duo_ _Roci_), the _knyghtys_, the _Awfyns_ (_duo alfini_), and the _povnys_ (_pedini_). This is interesting in connection with the _Book of the Duchess_; see note to l. 654 of that poem. The author tells us how 'he plaid at the chesse,' and 'was mated of a Ferse.' B. (Bodley 638) is very closely related to MS. F.; in the case of some of the poems, both must have been drawn from a common source. MS. B. is not a mere copy of F., for it sometimes has the correct reading where F. is wrong; as, e.g. in the case of the reading _Bret_ in the _House of Fame_, l. 1208. It contains seven of these Minor Poems, as well as _The boke of Cupide god of loue_ (_Cuckoo and Nightingale_), Hoccleve's _Lettre of Cupide god of loue_, Lydgate's _Temple of Glass_ (oddly called _Temple of Bras_ (!), a mistake which occurs in MS. F. also), his _Ordre of Folys_, printed in Halliwell's Minor Poems of Lydgate, p. 164, and his _Complaint of the Black Knight_, imperfect at the beginning. A. (Shirley's MS. Ashmole 59) is remarkable for containing a large number of pieces by Lydgate, most of which are marked as his. It corroborates the statement in MS. F. that he wrote the _Balade against Women's Doubleness_. It contains the whole of Scogan's poem in which Chaucer's _Gentilesse_ is quoted: see the complete print of it, from this MS., in the Chaucer Society's publications.