"'It were a dark and teedjus night in the erly springtime while the snow were falling soft over the moon litt lanskape.'

This "aristocrat" spoke of "brass fardens," and was unable to spell the simplest words, as the following specimen will show:"Sir Pitt Crawley begs Miss Sharp and baggidge may be hear on Tuseday, as I leaf ... to-morrow erly."

For illustration of the last stanza, see Chaucer's Prologue to 'The Legend of Good Women'. 'As I seyde erst, whanne comen is the May, That in my bed ther daweth me no day, That I nam uppe and walkyng in the mede, To seen this floure agein the sonne sprede, Whan it up rysith erly by the morwe;