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

'God, for his [grace], fro swich oon kepe us!'

Thus may thise women prayen that hit here.

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[Now to theffect turne I of my matere].

Destroyed is of Troye the citee;

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This Demophon com sailing in the see

Toward Athenes, to his paleys large;

With him com many a ship and many a barge

Ful of his folk, of which ful many oon