[Gives Chaucer her hand shyly.]

’tis April.

[They dance, in stately fashion, within the arbour. Forgetting themselves in the dance, however, they come a little too far forward; Alisoun spies them, and clapping her hands, the music stops.]

ALISOUN

Caught! Ho, turtle-doves

Come forth, Sir Elvish Knight, Sir Oberon!

Fetch forth thy veilèd nymph, that trips so fair.

[Chaucer steps forth from the arbour. The Prioress, within, seizes up her little hound from a settle and hides her face.]

ALL

Hail!