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Updated: July 26, 2025

Alberti shewed by his Gothic church dedicated to St. Chaucer, the morning star of poetry in England, briefly preceded one greater, and even more learned, Rowley, whose few fragments recovered, as asserted by the sprightly boy-finder, Chatterton, in a chest in the muniment room of the church of St. Never did Athens produce a general superior to our own gallant and magnanimous Henry the Fifth:

John Wilson Ross - Tacitus and Bracciolini : The Annals Forged in the XVth Century