50 INTRODUCTION. 
to be found in the earliest printed editions. For 
this purpose I have used that printed at Strasburg 
in 1491, collated with six others of the fifteenth cen- 
tury: viz. two small quartos without name or date, 
perhaps earlier ; one in duodecimo printed a 
Regnault Chandieu ; one by John de Westphalia; 
another by Balligault in 1493, and one by Michael le 
Noir in 1497. I have not seen what has been stated 
to be the earliest edition of 1480, if that is not a mis- 
take, arising from the date of the approbation of the 
sages of Montpelier. All those of the fifteenth cen- 
tury which I have seen, and probably any others, 
are mere reprints of each other, with no other varia- 
tions than errors of the press. I have, however, Fe- 
formed the orthography and corrected the evident 
blunders of one edition by another %, 
After the poem itself I have printed a selection 
from the additional lines. 
VU. IMITATIONS. 
% See the catalogue of printed editions. 
