25. The lines in brackets are only in some of the manuscripts.

26. Gat-toothed: gap-toothed; goat-toothed; or cat- or separate

toothed. See note 41 to the prologue to the Tales.

27. Sempronius Sophus, of whom Valerius Maximus tells in his

sixth book.

28. The tract of Walter Mapes against marriage, published

under the title of “Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum.”

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