Aprochen gan the fatal destinee                       #52
      That Ioves hath in disposicioun,
      And to yow, angry Parcas, sustren three,
      Committeth, to don execucioun;
      For which Criseyde moste out of the toun,
      And Troilus shal dwelle forth in pyne
      Til Lachesis his threed no lenger twyne. --

      The golden-tressed Phebus heighe on-lofte
      Thryes hadde alle with his bemes shene
      The snowes molte, and Zephirus as ofte
      Y-brought ayein the tendre leves grene,
      Sin that the sone of Ecuba the quene
      Bigan to love hir first, for whom his sorwe
      Was al, that she departe sholde a-morwe.
                                            --Geoffrey Chaucer           CLICK FOR EXAMPLE #53

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