Gower alludes to Chaucer in the first edition of the Confessio Amantis; see the passage discussed in vol. iii. p. 414.
Henry Scogan wrote 'a moral balade' in twenty-one 8-line stanzas, in which he not only refers to Chaucer's poetical skill, but quotes the whole of his Balade on Gentilesse; see vol. i. p. 83.
Hoccleve frequently refers to Chaucer as his 'maister,' i. e. his teacher, with great affection; and, if he learnt but little more, he certainly learnt the true method of scansion of his master's lines,
and imitates his metres and rimes with great exactness. The passages relating to Chaucer are as follows[[179]].
(1) From the Governail of Princes, or De Regimine Principum (ed. Wright, p. 67, st. 267):—
'Thou were acqueynted with Chaucer, pardee—
God save his soule—best of any wight.'
(2) From the same, p. 75, stanzas 280, 281-283, 297-299, 301:—
'But weylawey! so is myn herte wo
That the honour of English tonge is deed,