From a Mindow in the Library of All Souls College at Oxford.

Published June 30.1803 by Richard Phillips, N71,S:Pauls Church Yard. London.

LIFE

OF

GEOFFREY CHAUCER,

THE EARLY ENGLISH POET:

INCLUDING

MEMOIRS OF HIS NEAR FRIEND AND KINSMAN,

JOHN OF GAUNT, DUKE OF LANCASTER:

WITH SKETCHES OF THE

MANNERS, OPINIONS, ARTS AND LITERATURE
OF ENGLAND

IN

THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.

BY WILLIAM GODWIN.

Come like shadows; so depart!

SHAKESPEAR.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY T. DAVISON, WHITE-FRIARS;

FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS, N°. 71, ST. PAUL's CHURCH-YARD.

1803.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER XXIV.

ROMANCE of the Rose, a poem, translated by

Chaucer

CHAP. XXV.

Romance of the Rose continued.-Satire upon the

Mendicants

-

CHAP. XXVI.

Romance of the Rose concluded.-Satire upon women.

-French poetry of the sixteenth century

CHAP. XXVII.

Court of the Black Prince at Bourdeaux.-War in

Spain.-Duke of Lancaster distinguishes himself

in this war.-Sickness of the Black Prince.-Chau-

cer's first pension

CHAP. XXVIII.

War with France.-Duke of Lancaster commands in

Picardy-Death of the duchess Blanche

CHAP. XXIX.

Chaucer's poem entitled the Book of the Duchess.-—-—-

His marriage

CHAP. XXX.

Last campaign of the Black Prince.-Conduct of the

duke of Lancaster.-Chaucer sent upon a special

mission

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