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[Sparkman Harbinson]

Ed by him. It is scarcely more suspicious that when Gower,
in a second edition of his chief work, dedicated in 1393 to Henry,
Earl of Derby (afterwards Henry IV), judiciously omitted
the exordium and altered the close of the first edition,
both of which were complimentary to Richard II, he left out, together
with its surrounding context, a passage conveying a friendly
challenge to Chaucer as a "disciple and poet of the God of Love." In
any case there could have been no political difference between them,
for Chaucer was at all times in favour with the House of
Lancaster, towards whose future head Gower so early contrived to
assume a correct attitude. To him--a man of substance, with landed
property in three counties--the rays of immediate court-favour were
probably
of less importance than to Chaucer; but it is not necessity only
which makes courtiers of so many of us: some are born to the
vocation, and

Gower strikes one as naturally more prudent and cautious--in shor