“Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,
On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.”

— Edmund Spenser , The Faerie Queene

Canto 2, stanza 32
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book IV

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English poet 1552–1599

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“Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.”

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“Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,
On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.”