No. 66. _Eight Goodly Questions_; in Bell's Chaucer, iv. 421. In 9 seven-line stanzas. First printed in 1542. There are at least two manuscript copies; one in the Trinity MS., marked R. 3. 15; and another in the Bannatyne MS., printed at p. 123 of the print of the Bannatyne MS., issued by the Hunterian Club in 1873. In l. 19, the latter MS. corrects _tree_ to _coffour_, the Scottish form of _cofre_. It is merely expanded from the first seven lines of a poem by Ausonius, printed in Walker's _Corpus Poetarum Latinorum_, with the title Eorundem Septem Sapientum Sententiae. This English version is quite in Lydgate's style. § 5. EDITIONS AND MSS. CONSULTED. I have repeatedly explained that there were but four black-letter editions of Collected Works before Speght's; and these I call Thynne's first edition (1532), Thynne's second edition (1542), the undated edition (about 1550, which I call 1550 for brevity), and Stowe's edition (1561) respectively. I shall denote these editions below by the symbols 'Th.,' ed. 1542, ed. 1550, and 'S.' respectively. Of these editions, the first is the best; the second is derived from the first; the third is derived from the second; and the fourth from the third[4]. In every case it is useless to consult a later edition when an earlier one can be found. The following is the list of the pieces which depend on the editions _only_, or for which the editions have been collated. I always cite the earliest; that the later ones _also_ contain the piece in question must, once for all, be understood. Caxton.--XXVIII. No. VII. was also collated with a print by Caxton. Wynkyn de Worde.--XXIII. Wynkyn de Worde.--VIII. Chepman and Miller (1508).--VIII. Th.--I. IX. XI. XXII. Also collated for IV. V. VII. VIII. X. XII. XVI. XVII. XVIII. XIX. XXI. XXIII. Thynne had access to excellent MSS., and is always worth consulting. Ed. 1542.--II. XXVIII. Collated for VI. An early printed edition of Jack Upland.--III. S. (1561).--XV. Collated for XIII. XIV. XXIV. XXV. XXIX. A printed edition of the Testament of Cresseid (1593).--XVII. Speght (1598).--XX. Collated for III. The following twenty MSS. have been collated or consulted. Trentham MS.--IV. (See Introduction.) Fairfax 16.-V. VIII. XIII. XVI. XVIII. XIX. (See vol. i. p. 51.) Bodley 638.--V. VIII. XVIII. (See vol. i. p. 53.) Tanner 346.--V. VIII. XVIII. XIX. (See vol. i. p. 54.) Ashmole 59.--VII. X. XIII. (See vol. i. p. 53.) Arch. Selden B. 24.--V. VIII. XVIII. XXVI. XXVII. (See vol. i. p. 54.) Digby 181.--V. VIII. (See vol. i. p. 54.) Camb. Univ. Lib. Ff. 1. 6.--V. XII. XVI. XVIII. (See vol. i. p. 55.) Pepys 2006.--VIII. (See vol. i. p. 55.) Trin. Coll. R. 3. 19.--XIV. XVI. XXI. XXIV. XXV. XXIX. (See vol. i. p. 56.) Trin. Coll. R. 3. 20.--V. (One of Shirley's MSS.) Trin. Coll. O. 9. 38.--XIV. Addit. 16165, B. M.--XIII. (See vol. i. p. 56.) Addit. 34360, B. M.--XXI. Harl. 372, B. M.--XVI. (See vol. i. p. 58.)