"That she moste kisse his child er that it deyde..."
by: Edward Coley Burne-Jones (Artist)
from: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer (P. 132) - 1958
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"But atte laste speken she bigan, And mekely she to the sergeant preyde, So as he was a worthy gentil man, That she moste kisse her child er that it deyde; And in hir barm this litel child she leyde With ful sad face, and gan the child to kisse, And lulled it, and after gan it blisse." (p. 133)
"But atte laste speken she bigan, And mekely she to the sergeant preyde, So as he was a worthy gentil man, That she moste kisse her child er that it deyde; And in hir barm this litel child she leyde With ful sad face, and gan the child to kisse, And lulled it, and after gan it blisse." (p. 133)
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