Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,
On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
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Canto 2, stanza 32.Edmund Spenser
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As old Chaucer was wont to say, that broad famous English poet.
Thomas Middleton
I take unceasing delight in Chaucer. His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious to me in my old age. How exquisitely tender he is, and yet how perfectly free from the least touch of sickly melancholy or morbid drooping! The sympathy of the poet with the subjects of his poetry is particularly remarkable in Shakspeare and Chaucer; but what the first effects by a strong act of imagination and mental metamorphosis, the last does without any effort, merely by the inborn kindly joyousness of his nature. How well we seem to know Chaucer! How absolutely nothing do we know of Shakspeare!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,
And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,
Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.Edmund Spenser
Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam,
Maiorumque fames.Virgil
Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,
Auri sacra fames?Virgil
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