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

To seen this flour that I so love and drede.

And from a-fer com walking in the mede

[The god of love], and [in his hande] a [quene];

And she was clad in real habit grene.

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†A [fret] of gold she hadde next hir heer,

†And upon that a whyt coroun she beer

With florouns [smale], [and I shal nat lye];

For al the world, ryght as a dayesye

†Y-corouned is with whyte leves lyte,