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CHAPTER XIV CHAUCER
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Geoffrey Chaucer was the first English poet or writer to be buried within the Abbey, and just as the Confessor's tomb drew kings and queens to lie around it, so Chaucer's grave, in a way undreamed of at the time, consecrated2 one part of Westminster as the Poets' Corner. And what more fitting than that he who has been so justly named the "poet of the dawn, the finder of our fair language, the father of English poetry," should rest, when his life's work was ended, near to those others with whose names our early history is studded?
He was born in London about the year 1335, the son of a merchant vintner, and throughout his life London was to him "a city very deare and sweete." He was well educated, though where we know not, in classics, divinity, astronomy, philosophy, and chemistry, and naturally spoke3 French fluently, as its use was general. From his boyhood he loved reading only less than he loved nature.
"On bok?s for to rede, I me delyte,
Save certeynly whan that the moneth of May
Is comen, and that I here the foul4?s synge,
And that the flour?s gynnen for to sprynge,
Farwel my boke and my devoc?oun."
And almost equally, too, he loved to see life, to travel in foreign countries, to study, in a kindly5 sympathetic spirit, human nature in all its forms, neither criticising harshly nor condemning6 impatiently, but just observing and understanding.
Those early years of his life marked a great epoch7 in England, for Edward III. made the land ring with the fame of his victories at Crecy and Poitiers; the valour of his knights8 and soldiers; the fair and famous deeds done in the name of that chivalry10 which was then at its height; and young Chaucer seems to have caught the reflection of all that enthusiasm and
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Oxford
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dyke
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