<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391100" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballade adresse a Geoffrey Chaucer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Socratès plains de philosophie,<br>Seneque en meurs, Auglius en pratique,<br>Ovides grans en ta poëtrie,<br>Briés en parler, saiges en rethorique . . .<br>Grant translateur, noble Geoffrey Chaucier.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Socrates, filled with philosophy,<br>Seneca in morals, Aulus Gellius in practice,<br>Great Ovid of your poetry,<br>Brief in speech, wise in rhetoric,<br>Most high eagle, who by your science<br>Enlumined the realm of Æneas.<br>The Isle of giants, of Brut, who has <br>Sown the flowers and planted the rose bower<br>For those ignorant of French,<br>Great translator, noble Geoffrey Chaucer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are the god of earthly love in Albion,<br>And of the Rose - in the Angelic land,<br>Which, from the Saxoness Angelica, has flourished<br>Into Angle-land, from her whose name is applied<br>As the last in this etymology - <br>You have translated in good English;<br>And a garden for which you ask for plants<br>From those who compose in order to be authorities,<br>You have long since created,<br>Great translator, noble Geoffrey Chaucer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From you therefore, from the fountain of Helicon,<br>I have asked to have an authentic drink,<br>From the stream that is entirely in your power,<br>In order to quench my fevered thirst,<br>I who shall be shall be paralyzed in Gaul<br>Until you send to give me drink.<br>I am Eustaces; you shall have some of my plants;<br>Take in good grace these works of a schoolboy<br>Which you will recieve from me by Clifford,<br>Great translator, noble Geoffrey Chaucer.<br>L'envoy</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eustache+Deschamps">Eustache Deschamps</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391100" data-title="Ballade adresse a Geoffrey Chaucer de Eustache Deschamps" data-description="O Socratès plains de philosophie, Seneque en meurs, Auglius en pratique, Ovides grans en ta poëtrie, Briés en parler, saiges en rethorique . . . Grant translateur, noble Geoffrey Chaucier. O Socrates, filled with philosophy, Seneca in morals, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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