WALTER BESANT (_Br. Ency., Art. Froissart_), I observe, avers the presence of all three--though without giving authorities. MURATORI (_Annali_) mentions Petrarch as seated among the princely guests--_tanta era la di lui riputazione_--but there is, naturally enough, no naming of Chaucer or Froissart. [46] “_Nous lui lairrons toute seule faire les honneurs; nous ne irons ni viendrons en nulle place ou elle soit_,” etc.--Chroniques de SIRE JEAN FROISSART (_J. A. Buchon_), tome iii., p. 236. Paris, 1835. [47] “In the spandrils are the arms of Chaucer on the dexter side, and on the sinister, Chaucer impaling those of (Roet) his wife.”--_Appendix III._ to FURNIVAL, _Temporary Preface_, etc. [48] Some MSS. have this poem with title of _Supplication to King Richard_. [49] This--in the engraving; the autotype published by the Chaucer Society gives, unfortunately, a very blurred effect to the upper part of the face: but who can doubt the real quality of Chaucer’s eye? [50] The name, indeed, by some strange metonymy not easily explicable, had become “Talbot.” There is a later “Tabard,” dreadfully new, on the corner of “Talbot Inn Yard,” 85 High Street, Borough. [51] Dean Stanley, without doubt in error, in measuring the pilgrimage by twenty-four hours. See _Temp. Pref. to Six Text Edit._ FURNIVAL. [52] _Nov. VI. Giorn. IX._ It may be open to question if Chaucer took scent from this trail, or from some as malodorous _Fr. Fabliau_--as TYRWHITT and WRIGHT suggest. The quest is not a savory one. [53] His dethronement preceded his death, by a twelvemonth or more. [54] Edited by Dr. Reinhold Pauli, London, 1857. Henry Morley (_Eng. Writers_, IV., p. 238) enumerates a score or more of existing MSS. of the poem. The first printed edition was that of Caxton, 1483. [55] A more modern and accepted translation--by a wealthy Welsh gentleman, Thos. Johnes--was luxuriously printed on his private press at Hafod, Cardiganshire, in 1803. [56] There is a manuscript copy in the (so-called) _Bibliothèque du Roi_ at Paris. A certain number--among them, the _Espinette Amoureuse_--appear in the _Buchon_ edition of the _Chroniques_; Paris, 1835. [57] John Lydgate: dates of birth and death unsettled. [58] _The Storie of Thebe_ and _the Troy booke_ were among his ambitious works. Skeat gives his epoch “about 1420,” and cites _London Lickpenny_--copying from the Harleian MS. (367) in the British Museum. [59] James I. (of Scotland), b. 1394 and was murdered 1437. _The King’s Quair_, from which quotation is made, was written in 1423. It is a poem of nearly 1400 lines, of which only one MS. exists--in the Bodleian Library. An edition by Chalmers (1824) embodies many errors: the only trustworthy reading is that edited by the Rev. Walter Skeat for the Scottish Text Soc. (1883-4). A certain _modernizing_ belongs of course to the citation I make--as well as to many others I have made and shall make.