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

But at the feste redy been, y-wis,

The furies three, with alle hir mortel brond.

The owle al night aboute the balkes [wond],

That prophet is of wo and of mischaunce.

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This revel, ful of songe and ful of daunce,

[Lasteth a fourtenight], or litel lasse.

(30)

But, shortly of this story for to passe,

For I am wery of him for to telle,