an poet.

The House of Fame; from this poem Mr. Pope acknowledges he took the
hint of his Temple of Fame.

The book of Blaunch the Duchess, commonly called the Dreme of Chaucer,
was written upon the death of that lady.

The Assembly of Fowls (or Parlement of Briddis, as he calls it in his
Retraction) was written before the death of queen Philippa.

The Life of St. Cecilia seems to have been first a single poem,
afterwards made one of his Canterbury Tales which is told by the
second Nonne: and so perhaps was that of the Wife of Bath, which he
advises John of Gaunt to read, and was afterwards inserted in his
Canterbury Tales.

The Canterbury Tales were written about the year 1383. It is certain
the Tale of the Nonnes Priest was written after the Insurrection of
Jack Straw and Wat Tyler.

The Flower and the Leaf was written by him in the Prologue to the
Legend of Gode Women.

Chaucer's ABC, called la Priere de nostre Dame, was written for the
use of the duchess Blaunch.

The book of the Lion is mentioned in his Retraction, and by Lidgate in
the prologue to the Fall of Princes, but is now lost, as is that.

De Vulcani vene, i. e. of the Brocke of Vulcan, which is likewise
mentioned by Lidgate.

La belle Dame sans Mercy, was translated from the French of Alain
Chartier, secretary to Lewis XI, king of France.

The Complaint of Mars and Venus was translated from the French of Sir
Otes de Grantson, a French poet.

The Complaint of Annilida to false Arcite.

The Legend of Gode Women (called the Assembly of Ladies, and by some
the Nineteen Ladies) was written to oblige the queen, at the request
of the countess of Pembroke.

The treatise of the Conclusion of the Astrolabie was written in the
year 1391.

Of the Cuckow and Nightingale, this seems by the description to have
been written at Woodstock.

The Ballade beginning In Feverre, &c. was a compliment to the countess
of Pembroke.

Several other ballads are ascribed to him, some of which are justly
suspected not to have been his. The comedies imputed to him are no
other than his Canterbury Tales, and the tragedies were those the
monks tell in his Tales.

The Testament of Love was written in his trouble the latter part of
his life.

The Song beginning Fly fro the Prese, &c. was written in his
death-bed.

Leland says, that by the content of the learned in his time, the
Plowman's Tale was attributed to Chaucer, but was suppressed in the
edition then exta