sett an ende of all his werke,
as he whiche is myne owne clerke
do make his testament of Love,
as thow hast done thy shrift ab[o]ue,
so that my Courte yt may recorde, &c.
Chaucer submitteth his works to Gower, not Gower to Chaucer. These be all the verses whiche I knowe or yet canne fynde, in whiche Gower in that booke mentioneth Chaucer, where he nether nameth hym worthye poet, nor after a sorte submyttethe his workes to his iudgmente. But quite contrarye Chaucer doth submytte the correctione of his woorks to Gower in these playne woordes, in the latter ende of the fyfte booke of Troylus:
O Morall Gower, this booke I directe
To the, and the philosophicall stroode,
To vouchesafe where nede is to correcte
Of your benignityes and zeales good.