BALADE
by: Geoffrey Chaucer (1342?-1400)
- YD, Absolon,
thy gilte tresses clere;
- Ester, ley thou thy mekness al a-doun;
- Hyd, Jonathas, al thy frendly manere;
- Penalopee, and Marcia Catoun,
- Mak of your wyfhod no comparisoun;
- Hyde ye your beautes, Isoude and Eleyne;
- My lady cometh, that all this may disteyne.
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- Thy faire body, lat hit nat appere,
- Lavyne; and thou, Lucresse of Rome toun,
- And Polixene, that boghten love so dere,
- And Cleopatre, with al thy passioun,
- Hyde ye your trouthe of love and your renoun;
- And thou, Tisbe, that hast of love swich peyne;
- My lady cometh, that al this may disteyne.
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- Herro, Dido, Laudomia, alle y-fere [1],
- And Phyllis, hanging for thy Demophoun,
- And Canace, espyed by thy chere,
- Ysiphile, betraysed with Jasoun,
- Maketh of your trouthe neyther boost ne soun;
- Nor Ypermistre or Adriane, ye tweyne;
- My lady cometh, that all this may disteyne.
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