The House of Fame; from this poem Mr. Pope acknowledges he took the hint of his Temple of Fame.
The book of Blaunch the Duchess, commonly called the Dreme of Chaucer, was written upon the death of that lady.
The Assembly of Fowls (or Parlement of Briddis, as he calls it in his
Retraction) was written before the death of queen Philippa.
The Life of St. Cecilia seems to have been first a single poem, afterwards made one of his Canterbury Tales which is told by the second Nonne: and so perhaps was that of the Wife of Bath, which he advises John of Gaunt to read, and was afterwards inserted in his Canterbury Tales.
The Canterbury Tales were written about the year 1383. It is certain the Tale of the Nonnes Priest was written after the Insurrection of Jack Straw and Wat Tyler.
The Flower and the Leaf was written by him in the Prologue to the
Legend of Gode Women.
Chaucer's ABC, called la Priere de nostre Damê, was written for the use of the duchess Blaunch.
The book of the Lion is mentioned in his Retraction, and by Lidgate in the prologue to the Fall of Princes, but is now lost, as is that.
De Vulcani vene, i. e. of the Brocke of Vulcan, which is likewise mentioned by Lidgate.
La belle Dame sans Mercy, was translated from the French of Alain
Chartier, secretary to Lewis XI, king of France.