[6] F, cardinal for these _poetriæ_, and a most important contribution to medieval poetic, studies dates, ascriptions, and relations, provides analytical tables of contents, sums up in its introduction the common rhetorical doctrine, and for three of these authors establishes critical texts. The fourth and latest, Johannes de Garlandia, will be found in Mari. [7] Ad informationem puerilis disciplinæ quasdam dictiones quæ cooperativæ sunt ... interserui. II. 12 (F 154). Qui in scolastico exercitio fabulas circinantes poeticas. IV. 1 (F 180). In scolastico versificandi exercitio. IV. 16 (P 184). [8] II. 15-26 (F 155-160). He adds: “sunt et aliæ terminationes adjectivorum; sed in prælibatis ornatior verborum festivitas et elegantior junctura potest assignari.” (F 155). [9] I. 50-58, 107-111 (F 121-132, 146-149). For the practise at Speier, see above, page 141. [10] See note 5, above. [11] III. 45. [12] Sunt igitur attributa personæ undecim: nomen, natura, convictus, fortuna, habitus, studium, affectio, consilium, casus, facta, orationes, I. 77 (F 136). Both the topics and their application are descended from the encomium of sophistic. See above, page 31. [13] Above, note 7, and page 141. [14] Latius ut curras, sit apostropha quarta morarum Qua rem detineas et ubi spatieris ad horam. 264. Septima succedit prægnans Descriptio verbis, Ut dilatet opus. 554. A hundred lines later Geoffrey can still say: Restat adhuc aliud quod linguam reddit opimam. So certain is he of dilation as the mode of poetry that he demands support for it even of Horace. Multiplice forma Dissimuletur idem; varius sis et tamen idem. 224. The doctrine is no less insistent in his prose treatise, also printed in F. See especially II. 2. A. (F 271-284). [15] Tale of the Nun’s Priest, 521 (B 4531). The allusions are to _Poetria_ 326 (Anglia regnorum regina), 375 (O Veneris lacrimosa dies). For the significance of Chaucer’s satire here, see below, Chapter X. D. 3. Chaucer’s use of the contemporary rhetorical fund is discussed in Manly’s “Chaucer and the Rhetoricians,” London, 1927 (British Academy, Warton Lecture on English Poetry XVII, read June, 1926). [16] See in general Chapter I, and in particular the index. Faral acutely notes Geoffrey’s mention of Sidonius. [17] See above, Chapter VI. D. Geoffrey presents Lady Poetry (61) substantially as Alain presents Lady Rhetoric (_Anticlaudianus_ III. ii, quoted above, page 174); and Alain tags with the same _colores_ Cicero and Vergil in two successive lines (I. iv, above, page 174). [18] Composed in some thousand elegiacs, to which are appended specimens of various _rhythmi_. The author is called by Faral, to distinguish him from Évrard de Béthune, Évrard l’allemand. [19] Nostra comes fida,