afterwards made one of his Canterbury Tales which is told by the
second Nonne: and so perhaps was that of the Wife of Bath, which he
advises John of Gaunt to read, and was afterwards inserted in his
Canterbury Tales.

The Canterbury Tales were written about the year 1383. It is certain
the Tale of the Nonnes Priest was written after the Insurrection of
Jack Straw and Wat Tyler.

The Flower and the Leaf was written by him in the Prologue to the
Legend of Gode Women.

Chaucer's ABC, called la Priere de nostre Damê, was written for the
use of the duchess Blaunch.

The book of the Lion is mentioned in his Retraction, and by Lidgate in
the prologue to the Fall of Princes, but is now lost, as is that.

De Vulcani vene, i. e. of the Brocke of Vulcan, which is likewise
mentioned by Lidgate.

La belle Dame sans Mercy, was translated from the French of Alain
Chartier, secretary to Lewis XI, king of France.

The Complaint of Mars and Venus was translated from the French of Sir
Otes de Grantson, a French poet.

The Complaint of Annilida to false Arcite.

The Legend of Gode Women (called the Assembly of Ladies, and by some