to the canal under the weeping willows, to the school and the ruins of a once-famous castle which had withstood a siege by Prince John of France and of which, so the story went, Chaucer had been a Clerk of Works and who knows?-perhaps an ancestral Castle one of the artisans.
Behiala, gaztelu hark ospe handia bildu zuen Frantziako Luis printzearen setioari eutsi ziolako. Tradizioaren arabera, Chaucerrek zuzendu zituen gaztelua eraikitzeko lanak eta, auskalo, beharbada artisauetako bat Clastleren arbasoa izan zen.