Harl. 2251, B. M.--VII. XII. XIV. (See vol. i. p. 57.) Harl. 7578, B. M.--XIII. (See vol. i. p. 58.) Sloane 1212, B. M.--X. (A fair copy.) Phillipps 8151.--VI. (See Hoccleve's Poems, ed. Furnivall, p. 1.) Ashburnham 133.--V. (See the same, p. xxvii.) § 6. Conversely, I here give the authorities from which each piece is derived. For further comments on some of them, see the separate introductions to each piece below. I. _The Testament of Love_ (prose).--Th. (Thynne, 1532). II. _The Plowmans Tale_ (1380 lines).--Th. (Thynne, 1542). III. _Jack Upland_ (prose).--Early edition, Caius College library; Speght (1598). IV. _Praise of Peace_ (385 lines).--Th. (1532); Trentham MS. V. _Letter of Cupid_ (476 lines).--Th. (1532); Fairfax, Bodley, Tanner, Selden, Ashburnham, Digby MSS.; Trin. Coll. R. 3. 20; Camb. Ff. 1. 6; also in the Bannatyne MS. VI. _To the King's Grace_ (64).--Th. (1542); Phillipps 8151. VII. _A Moral Balade_ (189).--Th. (1532); Caxton; Ashmole 59, Harl. 2251. (I also find a reference to Harl. 367, fol. 85, back.) VIII. _Complaint of the Black Knight_ (681).--Th. (1532); Fairfax, Bodley, Tanner, Digby, Selden, Pepys; Addit. 16165. Also printed, separately, by Wynkyn de Worde (n. d.); and at Edinburgh, by Chepman and Miller, in 1508. IX. _The Flour of Curtesye_ (270).--Th. (1532). X. _In Commendation of our Lady_ (140).--Th.; Ashmole 59; Sloane 1212. XI. _To my Soverain Lady_ (112).--Th. XII. _Ballad of Good Counsel_ (133).--Th.; Camb. Ff. 1. 6; Harl. 2251. XIII. _Beware of Doubleness_ (104).--Stowe (1561); Fairfax 16, Ashmole 59, Harl. 7578, Addit. 16165. XIV. _A Balade: Warning Men_ (49).--Stowe (1561); Harl. 2251, fol. 149, back; Trin. R. 3. 19; Trin. O. 9. 38. XV. _Three Sayings_ (21).--Stowe (1561). XVI. _La Belle Dame sans Mercy_ (856).--Th.; Fairfax, Harl. 372; Camb. Ff. 1. 6; Trin. R. 3. 19, fol. 98. XVII. _Testament of Cresseid_ (616).--Th.; Edinburgh edition (1593). XVIII. _The Cuckoo and the Nightingale_ (290).--Th.; Fairfax, Bodley, Tanner, Selden; Camb. Ff. 1. 6. XIX. _Envoy to Alison_ (27).--Th.; Fairfax, Tanner. XX. _The Flower and the Leaf_ (595).--Speght (1598). XXI. _The Assembly of Ladies_ (756).--Th.; Addit. 34360; Trin. R. 3. 19. XXII. _A goodly Balade_ (71).--Th. XXIII. _Go forth, King_ (14).--Wynkyn de Worde; Th. XXIV. _The Court of Love_ (1442).--Stowe (1561); Trin. R. 3. 19. XXV. _Virelai_ (20).--Stowe (1561); Trin. R. 3. 19. XXVI. _Prosperity_ (8); XXVII. _Loyalty_ (7).--Selden MS. XXVIII. _Sayings_ (14).--Caxton; reprinted, Th. (1542). XXIX. _In Praise of Chaucer_ (7).--Stowe (1561); Trin. R. 3. 19. * * * * * § 7. I. THE TESTAMENT OF LOVE; BY THOMAS USK. Of this piece no MS. copy has been discovered. The only authority is Thynne's edition of 1532, whence all later editions have been copied more or less incorrectly. The reprints will be found to grow steadily worse, so that the first edition is the only one worth consulting.