Note B — IX
Reading edition
On this passage Tyrwhit makes the following judicious comment: The school of Oxford seems to have been in much the same estimation for its dancing as that of Stratford for its French—alluding of course to what is, said in the Prologue of the French spoken by the Prioress:
And French she spoke full fayre and fetisly After the scole of Stratford atte bowe For French of Paris was to hire unknowe