This also is found often in the _Mirour_, e.g. 4864-9: ‘Cist tue viel, cist tue enfant, Cist tue femmes enpreignant,’ &c. and 8294-8304, ‘Les uns en eaue fait perir, Les uns en flamme fait ardoir, Les uns du contek fait morir,’ &c. The habit of breaking off the sentence and resuming it in a different form appears markedly in both the French and the English, as _Mir._ 89, 17743, _Conf. Am._ iv. 2226, 3201; and in several passages obscure forms of expression in the _Confessio Amantis_ are elucidated by parallel constructions in the _Mirour_. Finally, the trick of filling up lines with such tags as _en son degré_, _de sa partie_, &c. (e.g. _Mir._ 373, 865), vividly recalls the similar use of ‘in his degree,’ ‘for his partie,’ by the author of the _Confessio Amantis_ (e.g. _Prol._ 123, 930). The evidence of which I have given an outline, which may be filled up by those who care to look out the references set down above and in the Notes, amounts, I believe, to complete demonstration that this French book called _Mirour de l’omme_ is identical with the _Speculum Hominis_ (or _Speculum Meditantis_) which has been long supposed to be lost; and, that being so, I consider myself at liberty to use it in every way as Gower’s admitted work, together with the other books of which he claims the authorship, for the illustration both of his life and his literary characteristics. DATE.--The _Speculum Hominis_ stands first in order of the three books enumerated by Gower, and was written therefore before the _Vox Clamantis_. This last was evidently composed shortly after the rising of the peasants in 1381, and to that event, which evidently produced the strongest impression on the author’s mind, there is no reference in this book. There are indeed warnings of the danger of popular insurrection, as 24104 ff., 26485 ff., 27229 ff., but they are of a general character, suggested perhaps partly by the Jacquerie in France and partly by the local disturbances caused by discontented labourers in England, and convey the idea that the writer was uneasy about the future, but not that a catastrophe had already come. In one passage he utters a rather striking prophecy of the evil to be feared, speaking of the strange lethargy in which the lords of the land are sunk, so that they take no note of the growing madness of the commons. On the whole we may conclude without hesitation that the book was completed before the summer of the year 1381.