Note 854 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 8)
Reading edition
See, for example, his "Lament for the Makaris quhen he wes seik," a kind of "Ballade des poètes du temps jadis," a style which Lydgate and Villon had already furnished models of. In it he weeps:
The noble Chaucer, of makaris flouir, The monk of Bery and Gower all three.