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Chaucer was an English poet who instructed Queen Elizabeth and
she mourned greatly for him when he died. His principal Work
was concerning the inhabitants of Bath.
When Chaucer was 21 years of old he engaged in war. He fought
valliantly and was unharmed. He also wrote a great many other
works on Fowl.
Chaucer displays his fame which shall always be distinguished from
time immemoriable. His satyrical stanzas are deep and show that
we have found a man of value. The Canterbury Tales are
undertaken by several journeymen. The Jolly Man was the
amusement for the multitude. We had 32 going on the journey
but each had no time to Tell a Tale, so they did not tell tales.
King Arthur was to flourish as magnificence in Canterbury Tails.
Peter Simple was one of the Canterbury Tales.
In the Canterbury Tale it gave account of king Alfred on his way to
the shrine of Thomas Bucket.
The Canterbury Tales are 24 volums. It concists or happens in an In
in Canterberry and the people which is not uncustomary.
In the Canterbury Tales the Night of Fextivity arrives and each
contributes by singeing or resitation. He is Inspired by angels
who bids him sing of the origan of Man.
Now Chaucer must have been a very keen intelligent man to thus
class various characters and put them in their right place as to
have harmony. His mind was always planning.
Chaucer we find him gazing at his empty purse and apostrophizing it
in despare and in terms that show his abject poverty.
Samson Augusta was one of Chaucer’s principal works as it
contained his life giving a full account of it. He also wrote
something about Paradise.
Chaucer was succeeded by H. Wads. Longfellow an American
Writer. His writings were chiefly prose and nearly one hundred
years elapsed.
Shakespere is an English author who is uncomputed.
Shakespeare was a fiction and allegorical writer. His father married a
lady of means but they became greatly reserved in
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