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GEFFREY. The Learned Eagle addresses the Dreamer familiarly by his given name, HF II.729, the only place where the name appears in Chaucer's works.

The form is the ME variant influenced by pronunciation of the name now spelled Geoffrey.


From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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