That they were at any time alienated from each other has been asserted, but the best commentators agree in thinking without sufficient grounds.
The historical teachings of Gower are easy to find.

He states truths without parable.

His moral satires are aimed at the Church corruptions of the day, and yet are conservative; and are taken, says Berthelet, in his dedication of the Confessio to Henry VIII., not only out of "poets, orators, historic writers, and philosophers, but out of the Holy Scripture"-- the same Scripture so eloquently expounded by Chaucer, and translated by Wiclif.

Again, Gower, with an eye to the present rather than to future fame, wrote in three languages--a tribute to the Church in his Latin, to the court in his French, and to the progressive spirit of the age in his English.

The latter alone is now read, and is the basis of his fame.