 In 1380, Chaucer adopted part of the Canzoniere to form three stanzas of rhyme royal in Troilus and Criseyde, Book I.Over 150 years would pass until Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, would translate several Rimes in the court environment of Henry VIII.Their translations are largely credited with making the ten-syllable line normative in English, and in George Puttenham's 1589 "Art of English Poesie" are credited with reforming the English language