93. Rascaille: rabble; French, “racaille” — a mob or multitude,
the riff-raff; so Spencer speaks of the “rascal routs” of inferior
combatants.
94. John Gower, the poet, a contemporary and friend of
Chaucer’s; author, among other works, of the “Confessio
Amantis.” See note 1 to the Man of Law’s Tale.
95. Strode was an eminent scholar of Merton College, Oxford,
and tutor to Chaucer’s son Lewis.
96. Explicit Liber Troili et Cresseidis: “The end of the book of
Troilus and Cressida.”