Stanza 21

Boccaccio:

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Petrarch:

Fuit haud procul a palatio villula paucorum atque inopum incolarum,

Not far from the palace, there was a village, of few and needy inhabitants,


Chaucer:

Noght fer fro thilke paleys honurable
Ther as this markys shoop his mariage,
Ther stood a throop, of site delitable,
In which that povre folk of that village
Hadden hir beestes and hir herbergage,
And of hir lobour tooke hir sustenance,
After that the erthe yaf hem habundance.


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