Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

From B. 53-56.

As she, that is of alle floures flour,

Fulfilled of al vertu and honour,

†And ever y-lyke fair, and fresh of hewe;

And I love hit, and ever y-lyke newe.

*Hir chere is pleynly sprad in the brightnesse

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*[Of the sonne, for ther hit wol unclose].

*Allas! that I [ne had] English, ryme or prose,

[Suffisant] this flour to preyse aright!