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

1690

[The grete Austin], hath greet compassioun

Of this Lucresse, that starf at Rome toun;

And in what wyse, I wol but shortly trete,

And of this thing I touche but the grete.

[Whan Ardea beseged was aboute]

1695

With Romains, that ful sterne were and stoute,

Ful longe lay the sege, and litel [wroghte],

So that they were half ydel, as hem thoghte;