Confessio Amantis

PREFACE
In his own day Gower's reputation as a poet and moral spokesman was secure beyond doubt. He was even the first English poet to enjoy international recognition, his Confessio Amantis having been translated into both Spanish and Portuguese early in the fifteenth century.

INTRODUCTIONGower's Confessio Amantis is one of several Middle English poems which may be classified as poems of consolatin.

PROLOGUSOf hem that writen ous tofore
The bokes duelle, and we therfore
Ben tawht of that was write tho;