Stanza 101

Boccaccio:

No Analogue


Petrarch:

inconcussa constitit, expectans quid de se ille decerneret cui se et sua cunta subiecerat. Miserat iam ille Bononiam,

she stood unshaken, awaiting what should be decreed by him to whom she had submitted herself and all that was hers. Walter had already sent to Bologna,


Chaucer:

Abidynge evere his lust and his plesance
To whom that she was yeven, herte and al,
As to hire verray worldly suffisance.
But shortly, if this storie I tellen shal,
This markys writen hath in special
A lettre, in which he sheweth his entente,
And secreely he to Boloigne it sente;


(close this window to return to the Clerk's Tale.)

No comments:

Post a Comment