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THE LIVES OF THE POETS.


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GEOFFRY CHAUCER.

It has been observed that men of eminence in all ages, and
distinguished for the same excellence, have generally had something in
their lives similar to each other. The place of Homer's nativity, has
not been more variously conjectured, or his parents more differently
assigned than our author's. Leland, who lived nearest to Chaucer's
time of all those who have wrote his life, was commissioned by king
Henry VIII, to search all the libraries, and religious houses in