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Excerpt from The Canterbury Tales, And, Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser; Edited for Popular Perusal, With Current Illustrative and Explanatory Notes Where (page 273) he bids his little book Subject be unto all poesy, And kiss the steps, where as thou seest space, Of Virgil, Ovid, Homer, Lucan, Stace. See note 13, page 93. 3 See note 16, page 282.that the poet had chosen in that way to convey his matter - told, or taught, so much more directly and simply by word of mouth. It is impossible to pronounce positively on the subject the question whether Chaucer saw Petrarch in 1373 must remain a moot-point, so long as we have only our present information but fancy loves to dwell on the thought of the two poets conversing under the vines at Arqua and we find in the history and the writings of Chaucer nothing to contradict, a good deal to countenance, the belief that such a meeting occurred. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.