Dispreyse no wight but if effte thou may him preyse, Ne preyse no firre but thou may discomende: 30 Weyghe thy wordes and hem by mesure peyse; Thenke that the gilty may by grace amende, And eke the gode may happen to offende: Remember eke that what man doth amiss,[22] Thou hast or art or may be suche as he is.[23] This is full of lines that Gower would not have written, with superfluous syllables in the metre, as ll. 1, 5, 10, 17, 29, 33, 35 (omitting those that might pass with amended spelling), accent on weak syllables, as ll. 20, 25, 26, 31, defective rhyme, as ‘besyde’: ‘bewryde’ (participle), and ‘feere’ (companion): ‘bere,’ or suppression of syllable at the beginning, as in l. 12. The form ‘mayst’ (maist) for ‘miht’ is not found in any respectable Gower MS. Moreover the style is not that of Gower, but evidently imitated from Chaucer’s poem ‘Fle from the pres.’ LINENOTES: [1] 1 forþe wele [2] 2 ageine [3] 4 weele stondeþe [4] 7 shapeþe (efft] her R) [5] 9 gladde (glad R) amysse [6] 10 þee [7] 11 wit (witte R) [8] 12 ewysse [9] 13 stondeþe [10] 15 mens (mennys R) [11] 16 adradde [12] 18 enpeyreþe mans (mannes R) [13] 19 wele þowe [14] 20 ageyne [15] 21 gode (good R) certaine [16] 22 (Playe not pecus R) [17] 24 hurte bourdeþe (a brere R) [18] 25 fareþe doþe [19] 26 right ful (full R) [20] 27 frome [21] 28 þowe shalt kache hareme to pley w^t þeos beestis longe (Thow shalt haue hurt yf þou play with her longe R) [22] 34 Remembre doþe amisse [23] 35 haste arte CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA p. 2, note on 24-92, _for_ Λ, _read_ ΛP₂, and for _Of these_ H₃ Magd. _have_ read _Of these_ Magd. _has_ p. 13, note on 331, _for_ RSnDAr _read_ RSnDAr, Δ p. 14, l. 349, _for_ new _read_ newe p. 19, note on 543, _read_ scholde A, B, K schold S, F p. 23, note on 668, _for_ hol] hole AC _read_ hol B, F hole AC note on 683, _for_ A _read_ AM p. 25, l. 747, _for_ for _read_ forto p. 29, l. 871, _for_ form _read_ forme p. 33, l. 1024, _for_ wist _read_ wiste p. 57, l. 782, _for_ There _read_ Ther p. 60, l. 914, _for_ She _read_ Sche _so also_ p. 244, l. 679 p. 64, l. 1052, _for_ righte _read_ rihte p. 70, l. 1275, _for_ Commandeth _read_ Comandeth p. 72, note on 1338, _for_ SΔ _read_ SAdΔ, H₃ p. 88, l. 1946, _for_ wenyinge _read_ wenynge p. 96, l. 2248, _for_ well _read_ wel p. 100, l. 2365, _for_ myght _read_ myht _so also_ p. 117, l. 2990 p. 107, l. 2630, _for_ discoevered _read_ descoevered p. 109, l. 2710, _for_ all _read_ al _so also_ p. 156, l. 966, p. 238, l. 447, p. 346, l. 1668 p. 112, l. 2822, _for_ bare _read_ bar p. 113, l. 2838, _for_ But _read_ Bot p. 133, below l. 96, a small space should be left p. 138, l. 274, _for_ greveth _read_ grieveth p. 150, l. 750, _for_ her _read_ hire p. 170, l. 1498, _for_ Till _read_ Til p. 182, note on 1916, _for_ RCLB₂, H₃ _read_ RCLB₂, Δ, H₃ p. 200, note on 2592, _for_ AdB _read_ SAdBΔ