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Mechanically he took his Confessio Amantis, and sat down, but never opened it; rose again and took his Shakespere, opened it, but could not read; rose once more, took his Vulgate, and read: 'Quid turbamini, et ploratis? puella non est mortua, sed dormit. He laid that book also down, fell on his knees, and prayed for her who was not dead but sleeping.
The "Confessio Amantis" is no book for all times like the "Canterbury Tales"; but the conjoined names of Chaucer and Gower added strength to one another in the eyes of the generations ensuing, little anxious as these generations were to distinguish which of the pair was really the first to it "garnish our English rude" with the flowers of a new poetic diction and art of verse.
In what sort of work are the laborers engaged? Why may the author of Piers Plowman be called a reformer? Why was Gower undecided in what language to write? What is the subject matter of the Confessio Amantis? Chaucer. Good selections may be found in Bronson, I.; Ward, I.; P. and S., and Oxford Treasury, I. Skeat's Complete Works, 6 vols., is the best edition.
'I like to know what books my friends read. 'Sir, it is old master John Gower's book of verses, entitled Confessio Amantis, answered his lordship. 'It is a book I have never seen before, said the king, glancing at its pages. 'Oh! returned the marquis, 'it is a book of books, which if your majesty had been well versed in, it would have made you a king of kings.
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