"Tho saw I al the half ygrave With famous folkes names fele..."
by: Edward Coley Burne-Jones (Artist)
from: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer (P. 459) - 1958
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"Tho saw I at the half ygrave With famous folkes names fele, That had ybeen in mochel wele, And hir fames wyde yblowe. But wel unethes coude I knowe Any lettres for to rede Hir names by; for, out of drede, They were almost of-thowed so, That of the lettres oon or two Was molte away of every name, So unfamous was wexe hir fame; But men seyn: What may ever laste?" (p. 460)
"Tho saw I at the half ygrave With famous folkes names fele, That had ybeen in mochel wele, And hir fames wyde yblowe. But wel unethes coude I knowe Any lettres for to rede Hir names by; for, out of drede, They were almost of-thowed so, That of the lettres oon or two Was molte away of every name, So unfamous was wexe hir fame; But men seyn: What may ever laste?" (p. 460)
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