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The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (4); The Romaunt of the Rose. Troilus and Creseide
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer The Romaunt of the Rose Troilus and Creseide - 4 Author:Geoffrey Chaucer Volume: 4 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1845 Original Publisher: W. Pickering Subjects: Fiction / Literary History / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Medieval Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes... more »: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE. MANY menne sain that in sweveninges, There n'is but fables and lesinges: But menne may some sweven seene, Which hardely that false ne been, But afterward ben apparaunt: This may I drawe to warraunt An authour that hight Macrobes, That halte not dreames false ne lees, But undoth us the avisioun, That whilom mette king Cipioun. And who so sayth, or weneth it be A jape, or else nicete To wene that dreames after fall, Let who so liste a foole me call. For this trow I, and say for me, That dreames signifiaunce be Of good and harme to many wightes, That dreamen in hir sleep a nightes Full many thinges covertly, That fallen after all openly. Within my twentie yeere of age, When that love taketh his courage Of younge folke, I wente soone To bed, as I was wont to doone: . , And fast I slept, and in sleeping, Me mette such a swevening, That liked me wondrous wele, But in that sweven is never a dele That it n'is afterward befall, Right as this dreame woll tell us all. Now this dreame woll I rime aright, To make your heartes gay and light: For love it prayeth, and also Commaundeth me that it be so. And if there any aske me, Whether that it be he or she, How this booke which is here Shall hatte, that I rede you here: It is the Romaunt of the Rose, In which all the ...« less