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 - Geoffrey Chaucer

†Thy faire body, lat hit nat appere,

†[Lavyne]; and thou, [Lucresse] of Rome toun,

†And [Polixene], that boghten love so dere,

And [Cleopatre], with al thy passioun,

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Hyde ye your trouthe of love and your renoun;

And thou, [Tisbe], that hast of love swich peyne;

My lady cometh, that al this may disteyne.