... centuries Chaucerian poets in both England and Scotland labeled Chaucer "the master of rhetoric and eloquent diction- (Horobin, 2). The following quotations from John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady (ll. 1628-34) is typical of the fifteenth-century response to Chaucer's linguistic legacy: And eke my ... poems, which will be explained further when talking about Chaucer's meter. According to "The Language from Chaucer to Shakespeare- described on the Bartleby Web site, though this final -e died out by the 1500's, it is probable that Chaucer's use of the final -e was for metrical purposes- to c...

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