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

[Ther] nas coursere wel y-brydled noon,

1115

Ne stede, for the Iusting wel to goon,

Ne large palfrey, esy for the nones,

Ne Iuwel, [fretted] ful of riche stones,

Ne sakkes ful of gold, of large wighte,

Ne ruby noon, that [shynede] by nighte,

1120

[Ne gentil hautein faucon heronere],

Ne hound, for hert or wilde boor or dere,