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hint of the following piece was taken from Chaucer's House of Fame. ''The design is in a manner entirely alter'd, the descriptions and most of the particular thoughts my own: Yet I could not suffer it to be printed without this acknowledgment, or think a concealment of this nature the less unfair for being common. The reader who would compare this with Chaucer, may begin with his third book of Fame, there being nothing in the two first books that answers to their title''.