Me voila!
[Exit right, behind wall.]
CHAUCER
[Reading from one of his parchments, crosses over by the
arbour.]
“There was also a nun, a prioress,
That of her smiling was full simple and coy;
The greatest oath she swore was ‘by St. Loy!’
And she was clepèd Madame Eglantine;
Full daintly she sang the psalms divine;
And French she spake (St. Patrick taught her how),