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CHAUCER’S TOMB.
CHAPTER V
THE HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORK: 1399 to 1485
Plantagenet:
“Let him that is a true-born gentleman,
And stands upon the honour of his birth,
If he suppose that I have pleaded truth,
From off this briar pluck a white rose with me.”
Somerset:
“Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer,