But Mr Henry Bradley, one of the editors of the _New English Dictionary_, discovered that the chapters near the end of the treatise are out of order; and when he had restored sense by putting them as they should be, the new reading of the last seven letters came out as "thin vsk," i.e."thine Usk"; and the attribution of this treatise to Thomas Usk clears up every difficulty and fits in with all that John Malverne says.

This, in fact, is the happy solution of the authorship of _The Testament of Love_, which was once attributed to Chaucer, though it is obviously not his at all.
But it is time to return to John Trevisa, Higden's translator.

This long translation is all in the Southern dialect, originally that of Gloucestershire, though there are several MSS.

that do not always agree.

A fair copy of it, from a MS.