In place of this line, Hl. has the following extraordinary variation:--

'Fordoon, or dun hath brought hem in the myre.'

This shews that the scribe remembered the fifth line in the Manciple's

Prologue, and thought fit to re-introduce it here, where it is wholly out

of place. This is one of the many signs of the untrustworthiness of this

grossly over-rated MS.

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