[Footnote 227: Ibid. p. 221, line 7366.] [Footnote 228: Ibid. p. 221, line 7384.] [Footnote 229: Ibid. p. 222, line 7389.] [Footnote 230: "Canterbury Tales," II., The Sompnoures Tale, p. 222, lines 7397-7429.] [Footnote 231: Ibid. p. 223, lines 7450-7460.] [Footnote 232: Ibid. p. 226, lines 7536-7544.] [Footnote 233: "Canterbury Tales," II., The Sompnoures Tale, p. 226, lines 7545-7553.] [Footnote 234: Ibid. p. 230, lines 7685-7695.] [Footnote 235: "Canterbury Tales," II., The Sompnoures Prologue, p. 217, lines 7254-7279.] [Footnote 236: See in "The Canterbury Tales" the Rhyme of Sir Topas, a parody on the chivalric histories. Each character there seems a precursor of Cervantes.] [Footnote 237: Prologue to "Canterbury Tales," II. p. 3, lines 68-72.] [Footnote 238: Prologue to "Canterbury Tales," II. p. 3, lines 79-100.] [Footnote 239: Prologue to "Canterbury Tales," II. p. 4, lines 118-141.] [Footnote 240: Ibid. p. 5, lines 142-150.] [Footnote 241: Ibid. p. 5, lines 151-162.] [Footnote 242: Tennyson, in his "Dream of Fair Women," sings: "Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts, that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still."--Tr.] [Footnote 243: Speaking of Cressida, IV. book I. p. 236, he says: "Right as our first letter is now an a, In beautie first so stood she makeles, Her goodly looking gladed all the prees, Nas never seene thing to be praised so derre, Nor under cloude blacke so bright a sterre."] [Footnote 244: Under Proclus and under Hegel. Duns Scotus, at the age of thirty-one, died, leaving beside his sermons and commentaries, twelve folio volumes, in a small close handwriting, in a style like Hegel's, on the same subject as Proclus treats of. Similarly with Saint Thomas and the whole train of schoolmen. No idea can be formed of such a labor before handling the books themselves.] [Footnote 245: Peter Lombard, "Book of Sentences." It was the classic of the Middle Ages.] [Footnote 246: Duns Scotus, ed. 1639.] [Footnote 247: Utrum angelus diligat se ipsum dilectione naturali vel electiva? Utrum in statu innocentiæ fuerit generatio per coitum? Utrum omnes fuissent nati in sexu masculino? Utrum cognitio angeli posset dici matutina et vespertina? Utrum martyribus aureola debeatur? Utrum virgo Maria fuerit virgo in concipiendo? Utrum remanserit virgo post partum? The reader may look out in the text the reply to these last two questions. (S. Thomas, "Summa Theologica," ed. 1677.)] [Footnote 248: The Rev. Henry Anstey, in his Introduction to "Munimenta Academica," Lond. 1868, says that "the statement of Richard of Armagh that there were in the thirteenth century 30,000 scholars at Oxford is almost incredible." P. XLVIII.--Tr.] [Footnote 249: "History of English Poetry," vol. II.] [Footnote 250: Contemporary with Chaucer. The "Confessio Amantis" dates from 1393.] [Footnote 251: "History of Rosiphele. Ballads."] [Footnote 252: Warton, II. 240.]