Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text. * * * * * In this text [gh] represents the Middle English letter "yogh", which appears similar to the numeral 3. [=a] signifies "a macron", and so forth. * * * * * CHAUCERIAN AND OTHER PIECES _EDITED, FROM NUMEROUS MANUSCRIPTS_ BY THE REV. WALTER W. SKEAT, LITT.D., D.C.L., LL.D., PH.D. ELRINGTON AND BOSWORTH PROFESSOR OF ANGLO-SAXON AND FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE BEING A SUPPLEMENT TO THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER (OXFORD, IN SIX VOLUMES, 1894) * * * * * * * 'And yit ye shul han better loos, Right in dispyt of alle your foos, Than worthy is; and that anoon.' _Hous of Fame, 1667-9._ Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M DCCC XCVII * * * * * Oxford PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY HORACE HART, M.A., PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY * * * * * CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION.--§ 1. Works appended to those of Chaucer in various editions. § 2. Thynne's collection in 1532. _A Praise of Women._ _The Lamentation of Mary Magdalen._ _The Remedy of Love._ § 3. Other non-Chaucerian pieces. _The Craft of Lovers._ _A Balade._ _The Ten Commandments of Love._ _The Nine Ladies Worthy._ _Virelai._ _The Judgement of Paris._ _A Balade pleasaunte._ _Another Balade._ _The Court of Love._ § 4. Additions by Speght. _Chaucer's Dream._ _Eight Goodly Questions._ § 5. Editions and MSS. consulted. § 6. Authorities for the pieces here printed. § 7. I. THE TESTAMENT OF LOVE. § 8. The acrostic found in it. Name of the author. § 9. Fate of Thomas Usk. § 10. Idea of the work. § 11. The author's plagiarisms from Chaucer. § 12. How he stole a passage from The House of Fame. § 13. Borrowings from Troilus and Piers Plowman. § 14. The author's inaccuracies. § 15. The title; and the meaning of Margaret. § 16. Plan of the work. § 17. Outline of Book I. § 18. Outline of Book II. § 19. Outline of Book III. § 20. II. THE PLOWMANS TALE. § 21. Never supposed to be Chaucer's. § 22. Written by the author of The Ploughmans Crede. § 23. III. JACK UPLAND. § 24. Date, A.D. 1402. § 25. Traces of two texts. § 26. Not originally written in alliterative verse. § 27. IV. THE PRAISE OF PEACE. By John Gower. § 28. The Trentham MS. § 29. Date, A.D. 1399. § 30. V. THE LETTER OF CUPID. By Thomas Hoccleve. § 31. VI. TWO BALADES. By Thomas Hoccleve. § 32. VII. A MORAL BALADE. By Henry Scogan. Date, about 1407. § 33. The supper at the Vintry. § 34. VIII. THE COMPLAINT OF THE BLACK KNIGHT. By John Lydgate. § 35. His quotations from Chaucer's version of the Romaunt of the Rose. Date, about 1402. § 36. IX. THE FLOUR OF CURTESYE. By John Lydgate. Date, about 1401. § 37. X. A BALADE IN COMMENDATION OF OUR LADY. By John Lydgate. § 38. A new stanza and a new MS. § 39. XI.