[We have since received replies to a similar effect, from "SIR
EDMUND FILMER," "J.E.," &c. "R.G." refers our Querist to Leigh's
_Critica Særa_, part I. p. 219. London, 1662; and "M." refers
him to the note on this passage in Exodus in M. Polus' _Synopsis
Criticorum_. To "T.E." we are indebted for Notes on other
portions of "L.C.'s" Queries.]


_The Temple or A Temple._--"Mr. Foss" says (No. 21. p. 335.) that in
Tyrwhitt's edition of Chaucer and in all other copies he has seen, the
reading is--

"A gentil manciple was there of a temple."

In an imperfect black-letter folio copy of Chaucer in my possession
(with curious wood-cuts, but without title-page, or any indications of
its date, printer, &c.), the reading is--

"A gentyl mancyple was there of _the_ temple."

That the above is the true reading ("the real passage"), and that it is
to be applied to _the_ temple, appears to me from what follows, in the
description of the manciple.

"Of maysters had he moo than thryes ten
That were of lawe expirte and curyous,
Of whyche there were a dosen in that hous
Worthy to be," &c.;

P.H.F.