Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (1385)

[Dave Monroe]

BOOK III

Incipit prohemium tercii libri.

O blisful light of whiche the bemes clere
Adorneth al the thridde hevene faire!
O sonnes lief, O Ioves doughter dere,
Plesaunce of love, O goodly debonaire,
In gentil hertes ay redy to repaire!
O verray cause of hele and of gladnesse,
Y-heried be thy might and thy goodnesse!

In hevene and helle, in erthe and salte see
Is felt thy might, if that I wel descerne;
As man, brid, best, fish, herbe and grene tree
Thee fele in tymes with vapour eterne.
God loveth, and to love wol nought werne;
And in this world no lyves creature,
With-outen love, is worth, or may endure....

http://omacl.org/Troilus/troilus3.html

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=ChaTroi.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&tag=public&part=3&division=div1

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/257

http://omacl.org/Troilus/troilusall.html

http://encyclopediaindex.com/c/troic10.htm

http://afdtk.uaa.alaska.edu/ect_troilus.htm

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ChaTroi.html


 
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