No, Chaucer wasn't referring to the newly-minted man prize of The Bachelor, but ABC certainly hopes that its choice will, like the Squire to whom Chaucer was referring, be a "lover and lusty bachelor". Chaucer wouldn't have wanted it any other way. A prude Chaucer was not, as evidenced by some of his notoriously raunchy fabliaux. His masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, holds the unofficial record for most high school classroom giggles generated by a canonical piece of literature. What all of this means is obvious--Chaucer would be a big fan of The Bachelor. He'd be that office lecher who buttonholes you on your way to the copier to handicap the chances of the remaining bachelorettes (but in Middle English, of course). But it’s not just The Bachelor's libidinous overtones that he would appreciate, it's the shows valuable contribution to the genre of "comic sociology" that Chaucer practically invented with the Tales. Thanks to The Bachelor, and its Title IX spin-off The Bachelorette, we are provided with a cross-sectional, cringetastic look behind the green door of American singledom--a place where grown women still say things like, "He's got the perfect car." Yeah, isn't he just a dreamboat? Even on a TV schedule larded with reality shows, it's hard to find a more unvarnished look at sexual mores in mainstream America. So watch The Bachelor, and learn. If he hadn't died more than 500 years ago, Chaucer would and gladly.