sentiment of familiar regard; and in New England, where the earliest
great poet of Old England is cherished not less warmly than among
ourselves, a kindly cunning had thus limned his likeness:--

An old man in a lodge within a park;
The chamber walls depicted all around
With portraiture of huntsman, hawk and hound,
And the hurt deer. He listeneth to the lark,
Whose song comes with the sunshine through the dark
Of painted glass in leaden lattice bound;
He listeneth and he laugheth at the sound,
Then writeth in a book like any clerk.
He is the poet of the dawn, who wrote
The Canterbury Tales, and his old age
Made beautiful with song; and as I read
I hear the crowing cock, I hear the note
Of lark and linnet, and from every page
Rise odours of ploughed field or flowery mead.

GLOSSARY.

Bencite = benedicite.
Clepe, call.
Deem, judge.
Despitous, angry to excess.
Digne, fit;--disdainful.
Frere, friar.
Gentle, well-born.
Keep, care.
Languor, grief.
Meinie, following, household.
Meet, mate (?), measure (?).
Overthwart, across.
Parage, rank, degree.
Press, crowd.
Rede, advise, counsel.
Reeve, steward, bailiff.
Ruth, pity.
Scall, scab.
Shapely, fit.
Sithe, time.
Spiced, nice, scrupulous.
Targe, target, shield.
Y prefix of past participle as in, y-bee = bee(n).
While, time; to quite his while, to reward his pains.
Wieldy, active.
Wone, custom, habit.

INDEX.

"A.B.C." ("La Priere de Notre Dame").

"Adam" (Chaucer's Scrivener).

"African."

Albert of Brescia.

"Alcestis."

"Alchemist" (Ben Jonson).

Aldgate.

Alfred, King.

Anne, Queen.

"Antiquary Moth" (Cartwright).

"Ariadne."

Aristophanes.

"Art of English Poesy" (Puttenham).

"Arviragus."

"Assembly of Fowls or Parliament of Birds."

Astrology.

Bailly, Master Harry. See "Host."

"Ballad of Sir Thopas."

"Ballad sent to King Richard."

Balle, John.

Balzac.

Barklay.

Benedictines.

Berkeley, Sir Edward.

Berners, Lady Juliana.

Bible, Chaucer's knowledge of.

Black Friars.

Black Prince.

Blake, William.

Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster.

Boccaccio.

Boethius.

Bohemia.

"Book of Consolation and Counsel" (Albert of Brescia).

"Book of the Duchess."

"Book of the Leo."

Brembre, Sir Nicholas.

Bretigny, Peace of.

Brigham,