The Romance of the Rose?

CHAUCER

[Aside.]

Saints!

PRIORESS

’Tis a tale

As lovely as the flower,—writ all in verses

Dan Chaucer made at court. Hush, hush, don’t tell:

I’ve read it. Ah! Jacquette! Jacquette! Jacquette!

When Mary was a girl in Joseph’s garden,