NOTES ON THE TEXT:
Capital thorns are indicated by hash (#), and lower case thorns by a dollar
sign ($).
Asterisks (*) mark points at which the translator misunderstood his Old
French source. These points are fully annotated in Volume II (forth-
coming as EETS.os 192 (1988)), which contains all the explanatory notes.
Square brackets ([]) enclose editorial emendations (annotated in Vol. II)
and folio numbers, where the opening square bracket is followed by "f.".
Curly bracket ({}) surround characters or words damaged in the manuscript.
Ampersands (&) enclose words which appear in the printed edition in bold:
these are exerpts from the Creed, except in Chaucer's "ABC", where they
indicate large initials at the start of stanzas.
Per cent marks (%) prefix letters which appear in the printed
edition in italics to indicate expansion of scribal contractions or
the bringing down of scribal suspensions.
Funnels, indicating material inserted by the scribe, are denoted by (`)
to open, and . . .
