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Robbins Library Digital Projects > Visualizing Chaucer > The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer > "Whan that this dore hadde opened me This mayden, semely for to see..."

"Whan that this dore hadde opened me This mayden, semely for to see..."

"Whan that this dore hadde opened me This mayden, semely for to see..."
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"Whan that this dore hadde opened me This mayden, semely for to see..."

by: Edward Coley Burne-Jones (Artist) from: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer (P. 248) -  1958
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"Whan that this dore hadde opened me This mayden, semely for to see, I thanked hir as I best mighte, And axede hir how that she highte, And what she was, I axede eke. And she to me was noght unmeke, Ne of hir answer daungerous, But faire answerde, and seide thus: Lo, sir, my name is Ydelnesse; So clepe men me, more & lesse." (p. 248)