Complete the following statement. Chaucer wrote his elegiac poem, The Book of the Duchess, to praise the young Duchess of Lancaster who tragically died of___________________?

A. childbirth.

B. unrequited love for John of Gaunt.

C. drowning in the Thames.

D. the Black Plague.

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