Though once graven in stone, the inscriptions associated with Chaucer’s tomb at Westminster have been the subject of some dispute. In 1556, Chaucer’s remains were moved from their former resting place inside the abbey church to his tomb’s current location on the east wall of the south transept. 1 In the process, a new epitaph by Nicholas Brigham, at whose charges the translation was carried out, replaced the original epitaph. This original text, if we are to believe Caxton, who printed them in his 1478 edition of Chaucer’s Boece, had been written by Stephano Surigone and could be found hanging on a tablet beside the tomb. The story of the epitaph...