Note 567:F — Chapter III

This poet is conjectured to have thrown some ridicule on the Squire of Low Degree, in his rhyme of Sir Thopas; but Ritson remarks, that this romance "is never mentioned by any one writer before the sixteenth century; nor is it known to be extant in manuscript; and, in fact, the Museum copy is the onely one that exists in print." Romancees, vol. iii. p. 345.