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Roundel from the Parliament of Fowls

ROUNDEL from THE PARLIAMENT OF FOWLS Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400) Manuscript reproduced by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library 'Now welcome Summer with thy sunne soft, That hast these winter's weathers overshake And driven away the longe nightes black. Saint Valentine, that art full high aloft, Thus singen smalle fowles for thy sake, Now welcome Summer with thy sunne soft, That hast these winter's weathers overshake. Well have they cause for to gladden oft, Since each of them recovered hath his make; Full blissful may they singe when they wake, Now welcome Summer with thy sunne soft, That hast these winter's weathers overshake And driven away the longe nightes black. '

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