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{ "en": "And to the shore barefoot fast she went", "me": "And to the stronde bar-fot faste she wente," }

{ "en": "And cried: ‘Theseus, my heart’s sweet!", "me": "And cryed, \"Theseus! myn herte swete!" }

{ "en": "Where are you, with you I may not meet,", "me": "Wher be ye, that I may nat with yow mete," }

{ "en": "Who might thus by beasts have been slain?’", "me": "And mighte thus with bestes been y-slain?\"" }

{ "en": "The hollow rocks answered her again.", "me": "The holwe rokkes answerde her again;" }

{ "en": "No man saw she, yet bright was the moon.", "me": "No man she saw, and yit shyned the mone," }

{ "en": "And high upon a rock she clambered soon", "me": "And hye upon a rokke she wente sone," }

{ "en": "And saw his boat a-sailing in the sea.", "me": "And saw his barge sailing in the see." }

{ "en": "Cold grew her heart and right thus said she:", "me": "Cold wex her herte, and right thus seide she." }

{ "en": "‘Meeker than you I find are the beasts wild!’", "me": "\"Meker than ye finde I the bestes wilde!\"" }

{ "en": "Did he not sin who her had thus beguiled?", "me": "Hadde he nat sinne, that her thus begylde?" }

{ "en": "She cried: ‘O turn back in your sin for pity!", "me": "She cryed, \"O turne again, for routhe and sinne!" }

{ "en": "Your boat lacks one in its company!’", "me": "Thy barge hath nat al his meiny inne!\"" }

{ "en": "Her kerchief on a pole then hoisted she", "me": "Her kerchef on a pole up stikked she," }

{ "en": "So that by chance the head-cloth he might see", "me": "Ascaunce that he sholde hit wel y-see," }

{ "en": "And remember he had left her there behind", "me": "And him remembre that she was behinde," }

{ "en": "And return, and on the shore her might find;", "me": "And turne again, and on the stronde her finde;" }

{ "en": "But all for naught; his way he has gone.", "me": "But al for noght; his wey he is y-goon." }

{ "en": "And down she fell swooning on a stone", "me": "And doun she fil a-swown upon a stoon;" }

{ "en": "Then up she rose, and kissed with sad care", "me": "And up she rist, and kiste, in al her care," }

{ "en": "The print of his feet where he’d passed there,", "me": "The steppes of his feet, ther he hath fare," }

{ "en": "And to her bed right thus she spoke too:", "me": "And to her bedde right thus she speketh tho: --" }

{ "en": "‘Oh bed,’ quoth she, ‘who have received us two,", "me": "\"Thou bed,\" quod she, \"that hast receyved two," }

{ "en": "You should answer for two, not just for one!", "me": "Thou shalt answere of two, and nat of oon!" }

{ "en": "Where away has your greater part now gone?", "me": "Wher is thy gretter part away y-goon?" }

{ "en": "Alas, what shall I, a wretched girl, become?", "me": "Allas! wher shal I, wrecched wight, become!" }

{ "en": "For, even if some boat, some ship may come,", "me": "For, thogh so be that ship or boot heer come," }

{ "en": "I dare not sail home to my land, for fear;", "me": "Hoom to my contree dar I nat for drede;" }

{ "en": "I can advise me no course of action here.’", "me": "I can my-selven in this cas nat rede!\"" }

{ "en": "What shall I say more of her complaining?", "me": "What shal I telle more her compleining?" }

{ "en": "It was so long, it would be a heavy thing.", "me": "Hit is so long, hit were an hevy thing." }

{ "en": "In his Heroides Ovid tells us all;", "me": "In her epistle Naso telleth al;" }

{ "en": "But briefly I’ll say what did befall.", "me": "But shortly to the ende I telle shal." }

{ "en": "The gods came to her aid, out of pity,", "me": "The goddes have her holpen, for pitee;" }

{ "en": "And when the sun’s in Taurus men see", "me": "And, in the signe of Taurus, men may see" }

{ "en": "The stones of her crown shining clear.", "me": "The stones of her coroun shyne clere. --" }

{ "en": "I’ll speak no more of the matter here,", "me": "I wol no more speke of this matere;" }

{ "en": "So false lover may his true love beguile:", "me": "But thus this false lover can begyle" }

{ "en": "And may the devil requite him in a while!", "me": "His trewe love. The devil quyte him his wyle!" }

{ "en": "You giver of forms, who have wrought", "me": "iver of the formes, that hast wroght" }

{ "en": "The fair world, and borne it in your thought", "me": "The faire world, and bare hit in thy thoght" }

{ "en": "Eternally, ere you your work began,", "me": "Eternally, or thou thy werk began," }

{ "en": "Why did you conceive that shameful man,", "me": "Why madest thou, unto the slaundre of man," }

{ "en": "Or – if there was no intent in your doing,", "me": "Or -- al be that hit was not thy doing," }

{ "en": "To create, to that end, such a thing –", "me": "As for that fyn to make swiche a thing --" }

{ "en": "Why did you suffer Tereus to be born,", "me": "Why suffrest thou that Tereus was bore," }

{ "en": "Who was in love so false and forsworn,", "me": "That is in love so fals and so forswore," }

{ "en": "That all from this world to highest heaven", "me": "That, fro this world up to the firste hevene," }

{ "en": "Is corrupted, when folk speak his name even?", "me": "Corrumpeth, whan that folk his name nevene?" }

{ "en": "And, for myself, so grisly was his deed", "me": "And, as to me, so grisly was his dede," }

{ "en": "That when I his foul story read,", "me": "That, whan that I his foule story rede," }

{ "en": "My eyes grow foul and sore also;", "me": "Myn eyen wexen foule and sore also;" }

{ "en": "Yet so lasts the venom of long ago", "me": "Yit last the venim of so longe ago," }

{ "en": "That it infects him who would behold", "me": "That hit enfecteth him that wol beholde" }

{ "en": "The story of Tereus, of whom I’ve told.", "me": "The story of Tereus, of which I tolde." }

{ "en": "Of Thrace was he lord and kin to Mars,", "me": "Of Trace was he lord, and kin to Marte," }

{ "en": "The cruel god that stands with bloody arms;", "me": "The cruel god that stant with blody darte;" }

{ "en": "And wedded had he with blissful cheer", "me": "And wedded had he, with a blisful chere," }

{ "en": "King Pandion’s fair daughter dear", "me": "King Pandiones faire doghter dere," }

{ "en": "Named Procne, and the flower of her country,", "me": "That highte Progne, flour of her contree," }

{ "en": "Though Juno did not wish that feast to see,", "me": "Thogh Iuno list nat at the feste be," }

{ "en": "Nor Hymeneus who god of weddings is;", "me": "Ne Ymeneus, that god of wedding is;" }

{ "en": "But at the feast appears, as witnesses,", "me": "But at the feste redy been, y-wise," }

{ "en": "The Furies three with all their deadly brands.", "me": "The furies three, with alle hir mortel brond." }

{ "en": "The owl at night among the roof-beams stands,", "me": "The owle al night aboute the balkes wond," }

{ "en": "Who prophet is of woe and of mischance.", "me": "That prophet is of wo and of mischaunce." }

{ "en": "This revel full of song and full of dance", "me": "This revel, ful of songe and ful of daunce," }

{ "en": "Lasts for a fortnight or a little less.", "me": "Lasteth a fourtenight, or litel lasse." }

{ "en": "But I’ll not from the story now digress,", "me": "But, shortly of this story for to passe," }

{ "en": "For I am wearied by the tale I tell,", "me": "For I am wery of him for to telle," }

{ "en": "Five years his wife and he together dwell", "me": "Five yeer his wyf and he togeder dwelle," }

{ "en": "Till one day she does so sorely long", "me": "Til on a day she gan so sore longe" }

{ "en": "To see her sister she’s not seen for long,", "me": "To seen her suster, that she saw nat longe," }

{ "en": "That, from desire, she can hardly speak.", "me": "That for desyr she niste what to seye." }

{ "en": "From her husband a favour she did seek", "me": "But to her husband gan she for to preye," }

{ "en": "Praying, for God’s love, she might be gone", "me": "For goddes love, that she moste ones goon" }

{ "en": "To see her sister, and come back anon,", "me": "Her suster for to seen, and come anoon," }

{ "en": "Or else, if she could not towards her wend,", "me": "Or elles, but she moste to her wende," }

{ "en": "She prayed that he would for her sister send.", "me": "She preyde him, that he wolde after her sende;" }

{ "en": "And this was day by day her only prayer", "me": "And this was, day by day, al her prayere" }

{ "en": "All humbleness of wifehood in word and air.", "me": "With al humblesse of wyfhood, word, and chere." }

{ "en": "Then Tereus made ready his ships there", "me": "This Theseus let make his shippes yare," }

{ "en": "And unto Greece himself forth did fare", "me": "And into Grece him-self is forth y-fare" }

{ "en": "To his father-in-law, and did him pray", "me": "Unto his fader in lawe, and gan him preye" }

{ "en": "To vouchsafe that for a two-month, say,", "me": "To vouche-sauf that, for a month or tweye," }

{ "en": "Philomela, his wife’s sister, might", "me": "That Philomene, his wyves suster, mighte" }

{ "en": "Of Procne his wife, just once, have sight –", "me": "On Progne his wyf but ones have a sighte --" }

{ "en": "‘And she shall come to you again right so.", "me": "\"And she shal come to yow again anoon." }

{ "en": "Myself with her will both come and go,", "me": "Myself with her wol bothe come and goon," }

{ "en": "And as my heart’s life I will her keep.’", "me": "And as myn hertes lyf I wol her kepe.\"" }

{ "en": "Old Pandion the king began to weep", "me": "This olde Pandion, this king, gan wepe" }

{ "en": "From tenderness of heart now to see", "me": "For tendernesse of herte, for to leve" }

{ "en": "His daughter go, and to give her leave;", "me": "His doghter goon, and for to yive her leve;" }

{ "en": "In all this world he loved none other so.", "me": "Of al this world he lovede no-thing so;" }

{ "en": "But at the last she has leave to go,", "me": "But at the laste leve hath she to go." }

{ "en": "For Philomela with salt tears does beseech", "me": "For Philomene, with salte teres eke," }

{ "en": "Her father, and the grace from him does seek", "me": "Gan of her fader grace to beseke" }

{ "en": "To see her sister, whom she longs for so,", "me": "To seen her suster, that her longeth so;" }

{ "en": "And embraces him in her arms also.", "me": "And him embraceth with her armes two." }

{ "en": "And then so young and fair was she", "me": "And therwith-al so yon and fair was she" }