Notes to Chaucer’s A. B. C.
1. Chaucer’s A. B. C. — a prayer to the Virgin, in twenty three
verses, beginning with the letters of the alphabet in their
order — is said to have been written “at the request of Blanche,
Duchess of Lancaster, as a prayer for her private use, being a
woman in her religion very devout.” It was first printed in
Speght’s edition of 1597.
2. La Priere De Nostre Dame: French, “The Prayer of Our
Lady.”