Transcriber’s Notes Obvious typographical errors in punctuation have been silently corrected. These typos were corrected: page 321 - corrected “plu8” to “plus” page 379 - corrected placement of hyphen and “r” from “ex sue crear cionis priuilegio supe-” to “ex sue crea- cionis priuilegio super” page 414 - corrected “Twelth” to “Twelfth” line 11556 - corrected "d ela" to "de la" Index - corrected "tresepoentablement" to "tresespoentablement" All other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged. Italics are represented thus _italic_, superscripts thus y^n, bold thus =bold=. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN GOWER _G. C. MACAULAY_ * THE FRENCH WORKS HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD [Illustration] LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK [Illustration: CAMB. UNIV. MS. ADD. 3035 (UPPER PORTION F. 149^{ro})] THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN GOWER _EDITED FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, AND GLOSSARIES_ BY G. C. MACAULAY, M.A. FORMERLY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE * THE FRENCH WORKS Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1899 Oxford PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY HORACE HART, M.A. PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY PREFACE The publication of this book may most conveniently be explained by a short account of the circumstances which brought it about.