Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor PoemsChaucer, Geoffrey
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Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems
Chaucer, Geoffrey
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
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'Then entering the temple, of Sighs P. F. 246.
She felt there an earthquake, which whirled
All fiery with hot desires.
This lit up all the altars
With new flames born of pangs;
Each of which dripped with tears
Produced by a woman cruel and fell
Whom she there saw, called Jealousy
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Poi dentro al tempio entrata, di sospiri
Vi senti un terremoto, che girava
Focoso tutto di caldi disiri:
Questi gli altari tutti alluminava
Di nuove fiamme nate di martiri,
De' qua' ciascun di lagrime grondava,
Mosse da una donna cruda e ria,
Che vide lì, chiamata Gelosia:
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'And in that [temple] she saw Priapus hold P. F. 253.
The highest place--in habit just such as
Whoever would at night see him
Could [do] when, braying, the animal
Dullest of all awoke Vesta, who to his mind
Was not a little--towards whom he in like guise
Went: and likewise throughout the great temple
She saw many garlands of diverse flowers.'
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Ed in quel vide Priapo tenere
Più sommo loco, in abito tal quale
Chiunque il volle la notte vedere
Potè, quando ragghiando l'animale
Più pigro destò Vesta, che in calere
Non poco gli era, in vêr di cui cotale
Andava; e simil per lo tempio grande
Di fior diversi assai vide grillande.
_Tes._ vii. 61, 62; cf. _P. F._ 281-294.
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'Here many bows of the Chorus of Diana P. F. 281.
She saw hung up and broken; among which was
That of Callisto, become the Arctic
Bear. The apples were there of haughty
Atalanta, who was sovereign in racing;
And also the arms of that other proud one
Who brought forth Parthenopaeus,
Grandson to the Calydonian King Oeneus.
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Quivi molti archi a' Cori di Diana
Vide appiccati e rotti, in tra quali era
Quel di Callisto fatta tramontana
Orsa; le pome v'eran della fiera
Atalanta che 'n correr fu sovrana;
Ed ancor l'armi di quell' altra altiera
Che partorì il bel Partenopeo
Nipote al calidonio Re Eneo.
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'She saw there histories painted all about; P. F. 288.
Among which with finer work
Of the spouse of Ninus she there
Saw all the doings distinguished; and at foot of the mulberry-tree
Pyramus and Thisbe, and the mulberries already distained;
And she saw among these the great Hercules
In the lap of Iole, and woeful Biblis
Going piteous, soliciting Caunus.'
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Videvi storie per tutto dipinte,
In tra le qua' con più alto lavoro
Della sposa di Nino ivi distinte
L'opere tutte vide; e a piè del moro
Piramo e Tisbe, e già le gelse tinte:
E'l grand' Ercole vide tra costoro
In grembo a Jole, e Bibli dolorosa
Andar pregando Cauno pietosa.
_Tes._ vii. 63-66; cf. _P. F._ 260-280.
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