Stanza 41

Boccaccio:

No analogue


Petrarch:

et insolito tanti hospitis adventu stupidam invenere,

and abashed by the unexpected advent of so great a throng of strangers.


Chaucer:

No wonder is thogh that she were astoned
To seen so greet a grest come in that place;
She nevere was to swiche gestes woned,
For which she looked with ful pale face-
But shortly forth this tale for to chace,
Thise arn the wordes that the markys sayde
To this benigne verray feithful mayde.

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