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

He made her doon to Iasoun companye

At mete, and sitte by him in the halle.

Now was Iasoun a semely man with-alle,

And lyk a lord, and had a greet renoun,

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[And of his loke as real as leoun],

And goodly of his speche, and [famulere],

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And coude of love al craft and art plenere

With-oute boke, with everich observaunce.