Note 10 — CHAUCER.[7]
Reading edition
Allegat ergo pro se lingua Oil quod propter sui faciliorem et delectabiliorem vulgaritatem, quicquid redactum sive inventum est ad vulgare prosaicum, suum est; videlicet biblia cum Trojanorum, Romanorumque gestibus compilata et Arturi regis ambages pulcherrimæ et quamplures aliæ historiæ ac doctrinæ. That Dante by prosaicum did not mean prose, but a more inartificial verse, numeros lege solutos, is clear. Cf. Wolf, Ueber die Lais, pp. 92 seq. and notes. It has not, I think, been remarked that Dante borrows his faciliorem el delectabiliorem from the plus diletable et comune of his master Brunetto Latini.