[1] Not the same MS. as that called ‘Harl.’ in the foot-notes to Gamelyn.
[2] It only contains the clerk’s Tale; see Reliquiae, ii. 68. The Longleat
MS. no. 25, belonging to the Marquis of Bath, contains both the Knight’s
Tale and the Clerk’s Tale.
[3] i.e. the gen. case of _physice_; ‘Magister Artium et Physices’ occurs
in Longfellow’s Golden Legend, § vi.
[4] Tyrwhitt counts 252_b_ and 252_c_ as 253 and 254; but omits 3155, 3156;
hence, in 3157-3720, the numbering is alike in the Six-text and T. He then
omits 3721, 3722, making a difference of _two_ lines. Wright follows
Tyrwhitt’s numbering in Group A, and in B 1-1162.
[5] T. counts B 1982, 1983 as one line; so also B 2002, 2003, and B 2012,
2013, and B 2076, 2077, making a difference of _four_ lines; but, on the
other hand, he expands B 1993 into _three_ lines; hence, on the whole, a
difference of _two_ lines in this portion. See pp. 192, 193, and note to B
1993 in vol. v.
[6] Wright counts the lines as I do, but his numbering is in one place
incorrect; after the line which he calls 15260, he counts the next thirteen
lines as ten.
[7] As in the Six-text, I call each clause of Melibeus between the sloping
marks _a line_, and so number it. So also in the Parson’s Tale.
[8] T. cuts up the Tale into paragraphs. So also in the Parson’s Tale
(Group I). I have _numbered_ these, for convenience; see head-lines, pp.
199-240.
[9] Sixteen lines short in Wright, because the Epilogue to the Nonne
Prestes Tale (see p. 289) is relegated to a footnote.
[10] Twelve lines short; T. omits E 1305-6, F 671-2, 1455-6, 1493-8. Wright
keeps E 1305-6, but does not count them, and omits the other ten.
[11] The dash (—) shews where the Groups end or are interrupted.
[12] The order of the divisions of this tale is different. The ‘modern
instances,’ viz. Peter of Spain, Peter of Cyrus, Barnabo of Lombardy, and
Ugolino of Pisa are placed at the end instead of coming in the middle.