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

Lest that her feet or swiche thing lay bare;

1860

So wel she loved clennesse and eek trouthe.

[Of her had al the toun of Rome routhe],

And Brutus by her chaste blode hath swore

That Tarquin sholde y-banisht be ther-fore,

And al his kin; and let the peple calle,

1865

And openly the tale he tolde hem alle,

And openly let carie her on a bere