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Updated: May 13, 2025
The wiser men they; for, in spite of the conformity required by the laws and enforced by the magistrate, that ridicule brought the system of pagan theology into contempt, not only with the philosophical part of mankind, but even with the vulgar. Lucian. It did so, and the ablest defenders of paganism were forced to give up the poetical fables and allegorise the whole. Rabelais.
A passage over perilous deeps, roofed by infinity and sempiternal things, surrounded too with evanescent forms, that like these crystals, trodden underfoot, or melted by the Föhn-wind into dew, flash, in some lucky moment, with a light that mimics stars! But to allegorise and sermonise is out of place here.
This poem has been thought by earlier commentators to allegorise an event known to have happened in 1358, by later critics another which occurred in 1364. Thus, backwards and forwards, the disputed points in Chaucer's biography and the question of his works are affected by one another.
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