Curiosa: Crook! Thief! Bagman!

[nebroadwe]

In the margins of a copy of The Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer (imprinted at London by John Kingston for John Wight, dwelling in Paul's churchyard, 1561), next to the passage from The Tale of Melibee condemning courtly flatterers who

enforce hem alway rather to speke pleasaunt wordes enclinynge to the lordes lustes, than wordes that ben trew or profitable ...

someone has written (not altogether legibly):

Tom [Hunt?]
is a knave

The note has subsequently been scribbled upon in lighter ink. Some truths are best left unsaid, perhaps ... :-)