Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Of maydens, suche as gunne hir tymes waste

In hir servyse; and peynted over al

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Of many a story, of which I touche shal

A fewe, as of Calixte and Athalaunte,

And many a mayde, of which the name I wante;

Semyramus, Candace, and Ercules,

Biblis, Dido, Tisbe and Piramus,

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