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

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Among al these, Anelida the quene

Of Ermony was in that toun dwellinge,

That fairer was then is the sonne shene;

Through-out the world so gan hir name springe,

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That hir to seen had every wight lykinge;

For, as of trouthe, is ther noon hir liche,

Of al the women in this worlde riche.

Yong was this quene, of twenty yeer of elde,