The Book of the Duchess

By Chaucer, Geoffrey

Book Id: WPLBN0000628341
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Book of the Duchess
Author:	Chaucer, Geoffrey
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: THE PROEM I have gret wonder, be this lighte, How that I live, for day ne nighte I may nat slepe wel nigh noght, I have so many an ydel thoght Purely for defaute of slepe That, by my trouthe, I take no kepe Of no?thing, how hit cometh or goth, Ne me nis no?thing leef nor loth. Al is y?liche good to me ? Ioye or sorowe, wherso hyt be ? For I have feling in no?thinge, But, as it were, a mased thing, Alway in point to falle a?doun; For sorwful imaginacioun Is alway hoolly in my minde. And wel ye wite, agaynes kynde Hit were to liven in this wyse; For nature wolde nat suffyse To noon erthely creature Not longe tyme to endure Withoute slepe, and been in sorwe; And I ne may, ne night ne morwe, Slepe; and thus melancolye And dreed I have for to dye, Defaute of slepe and hevinesse Hath sleyn my spirit of quiknesse, That I have lost al lustihede.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Book of the Duchess, 1 -- Geoffrey Chaucer, 1