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John Gower was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. He is remembered primarily for three major works, the Mirour de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio Amantis, three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively, which are united by common moral and political themes. Wikipedia  

✵ 1330 – 1408
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Confessio Amantis
Confessio Amantis
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“So goth the world, now wo, now wel”

Bk. 8, line 1738.
Confessio Amantis

“For loves lawe is out of reule.”

Bk. 1, line 18.
Confessio Amantis

John Gower Quotes

“But in proverbe I have herde say,
That who that wel his werk beginneth,
The rather a good end he winneth.”

Prologue (First recension), line 86.
Confessio Amantis

“The beauté faye upon her face
Non erthly thing it may desface.”

Bk. 4, line 1321.
Confessio Amantis

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