"When Adriane his wyf aslepe was..."
by: Edward Coley Burne-Jones (Artist)
from: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer (P. 440) - 1958
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"When Adriane his wyf aslepe was, For that her suster fairer was than she, He taketh her in his hond, and forth goth he To shippe, and as a traitour stal his way Whyl that this Adriane aslepe lay, And to his contree-ward he saileth blyve, A twenty devil way the wind him dryve!" (p. 439)
"When Adriane his wyf aslepe was, For that her suster fairer was than she, He taketh her in his hond, and forth goth he To shippe, and as a traitour stal his way Whyl that this Adriane aslepe lay, And to his contree-ward he saileth blyve, A twenty devil way the wind him dryve!" (p. 439)
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