Selections From the Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer:
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IDLENESS. The door of this entre^ A maiden curteous opened me : Her haire was as yellowe of hewe ' Jacinth. 2 Warton has very justly remarked, " Nothing can be more sumptuous and superb than the robe and other ornaments of Richesse or Wealth. They are imagined with great strength of fancy. But it should be remem- bered that this was an age of magnificence and show ; when a profusion of the most splendid and costly materials were lavished on dress, generally with little taste and propriety, but ...often with much art and invention." — Hist. Eng. Poetry, vol. i., pp. 375 and 376. 3 Entrance. 7* 130 CHAUCER. As any bason scoured newe, Her flesh as tender as is a chicke, With bente browes, smooth and slicke, And by measure large were The opening of her eyen clere ; Her nose of good proportion, Her eyen graie, as is a faucon/ With swete brethe and well favoured, Her face white and well coloured ; With little mouth and round to see ; A clove chinne eke hadde she : — Fro Jerusalem to Burgoine There n'is*^ a fairer necke ywis,^ To fele how smooth and soft it is.
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