Geoffrey Chaucer

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Across
  1. 4. birth place
  2. 8. undertook his 1st diplomatic mission
  3. 11. Chaucer's work helped to make English better than ?
  4. 14. based on the stories of Ovid, Petrarch,and the Decameron of Boccaccio, unfinished
  5. 15. and Cressida from an old Greek legend
  6. 16. de la Rosa evident in The Canterbury Tales
  7. 17. Chaucer fought in this war between England and France.
  8. 18. Northwell wealthy widow who married John Chaucer
  9. 20. Chaucer’s career combined writing, government work, and ___
Down
  1. 1. lived in this country
  2. 2. known as the "father of english"
  3. 3. we know little of this but we know it happened by the year 1374
  4. 5. pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales are going to visit a ___
  5. 6. known from measurements of his skeleton
  6. 7. for kent became a member of this in 1386
  7. 9. at 19 he served with the ?
  8. 10. wrote poems that rhyme in pairs, called __
  9. 12. often described as a ___ man of his time.
  10. 13. Extremely fond of this type of subject
  11. 19. lifetime public ...