Hell is forgot of them that chant on high;

Yet have I seen such things no man should say,

On this strait bed where I perforce must lie...


Three Rondeaux from Charles d’Orléans.

I.
LE TEMPS A LAISSIÉ SON MANTEAU.

YE TIME hath lefte his mantle fall

Of biting windes and cold and rain,

And well hath dight himself again