QUESTIONS CONCERNING CHAUCER

*Lollius.*—Who was the Lollius spoken of by Chaucer in the following passages? "As write mine authour *Lolius*." *Troilus and Cresseide*, b. i. "The Whichecote as telleth *Lollius*." Ib. b. v. "And eke he Lollius."—*House of Fame*, b. iii. *Trophee.*—Who or what was "Trophee?" "Saith Trophee" occurs in the *Monkes Tale*. I believe some MSS. read "for Trophee;" but "saith Trophee" would appear to be the correct rendering; for Lydgate, in the Prologue to his Translation of Boccaccio's *Fall of Princes*, when enumerating the writings of his "maister Chaucer," tells us, that "In youth he made a tr…