Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Gower

called by Chaucer “The moral Gower.”

O moral Gower, this book I direct
To thee, and to the philosophical Strood,
To vouchsauf there need is to correct
Of your benignities and zealës good.

Chaucer.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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