Woodstock Park. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400). Woodstock. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. 1876-79. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. England: Vols. I-IV

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.

Woodstock

Woodstock Park

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400)


(From The Book of the Duchesse) HIS chamber was
Ful wel depainted, and with glas
Were al the windowes wel yglased,
Ful clere, and not a hole ycrased,
That to beholde it was grete joy;	5
For wholly al the storie of Troy
Was in the glaising ywrought thus;
Of Hector and kinge Priamus,
Achilles and kinge Lamedon,
And eke Medea and Jason,	10
Of Paris, Heleine and Lavine:
And al the walles with colours fine
Were painted, both the texte and glose,
And al the Romaunt of the Rose.