in his early years, and perhaps Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiæ
was translated by him about the same time.

The Romaunt of the Rose, is a translation from the French: this poem
was begun by William de Lerris, and continued by John de Meun, both
famous French poets; it seems to have been translated about the
time of the rise of Wickliffe's Opinions, it consisting of violent
invectives against religious orders.

The Complaint of the Black Knight, during John of Gaunt's courtship
with Blanch is supposed to be written on account of the duke of
Lancaster's marriage.

The poem of Troilus and Creseide was written in the early part of
his life, translated (as he says) from Lollius an historiographer in
Urbane in Italy; he has added several things of his own, and borrowed
from others what he thought proper for the embellishment of this work,
and in this respect was much indebted to his friend Petrarch the
Italian poet.

The House of Fame; from this poem Mr. Pope acknowledges he took the
hint of his Temple of Fame.

The book of Blaunch the Duchess, commonly called the Dreme of Chaucer,
was written upon the death of that lady.

The Assembly of Fowls (or Parlement of Briddis, as he calls it in his
Retraction) was written before the death of queen Philippa.

The Life of St. Cecilia seems to have been first a single poem,