Note 88 — INTRODUCTION.
Stephen Scrope translation
“Now children of gramere scole conneþ no more Frensch þan can here lift heele ... also gentil men habbeþ now moche yleft for to teche here childern Freynsch” (R. Morris, Specimens of Early English, 1867, p. 339). See also the Rolls Series edition of Higden, ii. p. 161, where Trevisa’s text is taken from another MS.