Note 4 — Chaucer.
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5. Stowe.
6. “Hahn,”—German, a cock. “Cognomine Latino Gallus,” Maittaire Ann. Typ. i. 52.
7. A copy of this curious poem in Thynne’s hand-writing, and marvellously illustrated by him, is in the Brit. Mus., MSS. Add. No. 11,388.
8. The Quercus cerris, the mossy cupped oak?
9. [Absolon.]
10. [The Carpenter’s wife’s.]
11. Caxton, 1475–1481-2. Wynkyn de Word, 1495–1498.