Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1345-1400). English poet. Coloured full figure portrait. Image taken from Begin. fol. 2 recto: wHan that Apprill with his shouris sote And the droughte of marche hath :cid y:e rote etc. fol. 373 recto: Explicit Tractatus Galfrydi Chaucer de Penitencia vt dicitur pro fabula Rectoris. End. fol. 373 verso: nOw pray I to hem alle that herkene this litil tretyse Per omnia secula seculo: Amen. B.L. This image has been added to the Caxton edition and dates to the eighteenth century.