This is in decasyllabic verse, arranged in stanzas of seven lines each.
The _House of Fame_, another of his principal poems, is a curious description--probably his first original effort--of the Temple of Fame, an immense cage, sixty miles long, and its inhabitants the great writers of classic times, and is chiefly valuable as showing the estimation in which the classic writers were held in that day.

This is also in octosyllabic verses, and is further remarkable for the opulence of its imagery and its variety of description.

The poet is carried in the claws of a great eagle into this house, and sees its distinguished occupants standing upon columns of different kinds of metal, according to their merits.

The poem ends with the third book, very abruptly, as Chaucer awakes from his vision.
"The Legend of Good Women" is a record of the loves and misfortunes of celebrated women, and is supposed to have been written to make amends for the author's other unjust portraitures of female character.
THE CANTERBURY TALES .-- In order to give system to our historic inquiries, we shall now present an outline of the Canterbury Tales, in order that we may show-- I.The indications of a general desire in that period for a reformation in religion.
II.

The social condition of the English people.
III.