Gentilesse
The poem "Gentilesse" was written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late fourteenth century as a reply to the assumption that those among the nobility were noble. He writes that man must create and preserve his own virtue. Gentilesse, a combination of truth, righteousness, generosity, and other necessary virtues, can not be bequeathed to an heir the way riches are. He provides greater discussion of gentilesse in the "Wife of Bath's Tale" and "Clerk's Tale" of his Canterbury Tales.
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