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Epigram 36. Of Chaucer

by Sir Aston Cokain 1608–1684

From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)

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Our good old Chaucer some despise: and why?
Because say they he writeth barbarously.
Blame him not (Ignorants) but your selves, that do
Not at these years your native language know.

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