The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Vol. 7. Chaucerian and other pieces / edited from numerous mauscripts by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat.

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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

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Oxford :: Clarendon Press,

1894.

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"The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Vol. 7. Chaucerian and other pieces / edited from numerous mauscripts by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/CME00032. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 9, 2025.

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XXIX. BALADE IN PRAISE OF CHAUCER. [XXIX. From MS. Trin. R. 3. 19, fol. 25; also in Stowe (ed. 1561).]

MASTER Geffray Chauser, that now lyth in grave,  [1. MS. Chausers; Stowe, Chauser.] 
The nobyll rethoricien, and poet of Gret Bretayne,  [2. Rethoricion (!).] 
That worthy was the lawrer of poetry have
For thys hys labour, and the palme attayne;
Whych furst made to dystyll and reyne  [ 5] 
The gold dew-dropys of speche and eloquence  [6. elloquence.] 
In-to Englyssh tong, thorow hys excellence.

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