{"date":"October 3","id":"10-03","intro":["When polite English society conversed in French—considering English a vulgar tongue, fit only for servants and working people—Chaucer, nevertheless, wrote poems in this “vulgar” English, which charm us because of their quaint words."],"minutes":15,"readings":[{"author":"Geoffrey Chaucer","end":20,"start":11,"volume":40,"work":"Poems"}],"slug":"october-3","status":"proofread","title":"Good Enough for Chaucer","url":"/harvard-classics/october-3/","words":2926}