gentilesse

The first line means—'With regard to, or As to the first stock (or source), who was the father of gentilesse.'

To which add, as a twenty-third, the three stanzas on Gentilesse quoted in Scogan's poem (no. 33).

See remarks (in the notes) on Chaucer's Balade of Gentilesse.

Thou hast drawn all the thread out of my shift with thy gentilesse; thou hast tickled my heart with thy rebeck.

The 'cours d'amour, parlements d'amour, ou de courtoisie et de gentilesse,' had much more of love than of courtesy and gentleness.