Brewer's: Gower

called by Chaucer “The moral Gower.”

O moral Gower, this book I direct To thee, and to the philosophical Strood, To vouchsauf there need is to correct Of your benignities and zealës good.

Chaucer.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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