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OLD

FAVOURITES,

WITH A FEW

NEWER FRIENDS.

1328-1400] GEOFFREY CHAUCER.

From the Assembly of Fowls.

Out of the old fields, as men saith,

Cometh all this new corn from year to year, And out of old books, in good faith,

Cometh all this new science that men lere !

From Chaucer's Dream.

All my chamber 'gan to ring,
Through singing of their harmony,
For instrument nor melody

Was no where heard, yet half so sweet,
Nor of accord half so meet.

From the Clerk, Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

Not a word spake he more than was need,
And that was said in form and reverence,
And short and quick, and full of high sentence.
Sounding in moral virtue was his speech,
And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.

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