... and Cryseyde'"', and '"'The Legend of Good Women'"', and his mature period (1386-1400), from which The Canterbury Tales date. Of Chaucer"'"s works The Canterbury Tales are by far the best-known, probably first conceived in 1386. Chaucer was the first author to write in what was a recognisable English language. He wrote in the vernacular, the English that was spoken in ... lovers, and his favourite is a '"'faire damoysele Pertelope'"', who is particularly '"'Courteous.... discreet and debonaire'"'. You see all of them in two ways -familiar farmyard animals and -figures from court romance...

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