...noticeable part is really the introduction— the invocation to Chaucer as the 'well of English undefyled' : 'Then pardon, O most sacred happie spirit! That I thy labours lost may thus revive And steale from thee the meede of thy due merit, That none durst ever whitest thou wast alive."...

...to "endure, sith workes of heavenly wits Are quite devourd, and brought to nought by little bits ? Then pardon, O most sacred happie spirit ! That I thy labours lost may thus revive, And steale from thee the meede of thy due merit, That none durst ever whitest thou wast alive,...

...inharmonieux et imparfaits comme il ne s'en trouve nulle part ailleurs chez lui : 1 Then pardon, O raost sacred happie spirit, That I thy labours lost may thus reuiue, And stcalo from theo thé meede of thy due merit, That nono durât euer whilest thou wast aliuo, And being...

...Hope to endure, sith workes of heauenly wits Are quite deuourd, and brought to nought by little bits 1 Then pardon, O most sacred happie spirit, That I thy...thus reuiue, And steale from thee the meede of thy duo merit, That none durst euer whilest thou wast aliue, And being dead in vaine yet many striue :...

...attempting to complete the unfinished Squire's Tale, invokes him as the most ' renowned poet ' : ' Thy pardon O most sacred happie spirit That I thy labours lost may thus revive1.' As the morning star of our poetry most of Spenser's successors have hailed him. Chaucer was...

...workes of heauenly wits Are quite deuourd, and brought to nought by little bits? 34 Then pardon, О most sacred happie spirit, That I thy labours lost...thou wast aliue, And being dead in vaine yet many striüe : Ne dare I like, but through infusion sweete Of thine owne spirit, which doth in me surviue,...

...pillage of Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. . . . Then pardon, O most sacred happie spirit, That I thy labours lost may thus revive, And steale from thee the meede of thy due merit, That none durst ever whilest thou wast alive,...

...endure, sith workes of heavenly wits Are quite devourd, and brought to nought by little bits? XXXIV soft and fit them to embrace; Whether ye list him traine in chevalry, Or no revive, And steale from thee the meede of thy due merit, That none durst ever whilest thou wast alive,...

...sith workes of heauenly wits Are quite deuourd, and brought to nought by little bits t Then pardon, 0 most sacred happie spirit, That I thy labours lost...thee the meede of thy due merit, That none durst euer whitest thou wast aliue, And being dead in vaine yet many striue : Ne dare I like, but through infusion...

...once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body. Faery Queene, iv. 2, 34 : ' Then pardon O most sacred happie spirit ! That I thy labours lost may thus revive, And steale from thee the meede of thy due merit, That none durst ever whilest thou wast alive,...