Walter of Bibbesworth
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Apart from the ''tençon'' Walter is best known for a longer poem which in early manuscripts is called ''Le Tretiz'' ("The Treatise"), written in medieval French verse and supplied with Middle English glosses between the lines. It is known in two early recensions, one of which has a preface stating that the Treatise was written for ''madame Dyonise de Mountechensi'' (Denise or Dionisie de Munchensi) to help her teach her children French. ''The Treatise'' gained popularity and was afterwards incorporated in a late medieval textbook of French, ''Femina Nova''. Bibbesworth has also been credited with two other short poems in medieval French, one in praise of beauty, a second on the Virgin Mary, though the first of these is more likely to be the work of Nicole Bozon. Provided by Wikipedia
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