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XXIV.—I take the title from l. 25; cf. Troil. i. 287.
The metre exhibits the nine-line stanza, as in Anelida, 211-9; but the
same rimes recur in all three stanzas. The six-line Envoy, with the
rime-formula _a b a b a a_, is unique in Chaucer. There are nineteen
lines ending in _-aunce_, twelve in _-esse_, and two in _-ede_.
1. Note how ll. 1 and 2 are re-echoed in ll. 32, 33. For a similar
effect, see Anelida, 211, 350.