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The Re-echo Club: as by Geoffrey Chaucer (Lady of Niger)
From The Re-echo Club
A mayde ther ben, in Niger born and bredde;
Hire merye smyle went neere aboute hire hedde.
Uponne a beeste shee rood, a tyger gaye,
And sikerly shee laughen on hire waye.
Anon, as it bifel, bak from the ryde
Ther came, his sadel hangen doone bisyde,
The tyger. On his countenaunce the whyle
Ther ben behelde a gladnesse and a smyle.
Codex Note
A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Geoffrey Chaucer as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Lady of Niger).
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MLA
Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Geoffrey Chaucer (Lady of Niger).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/274/.
Chicago
Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Geoffrey Chaucer (Lady of Niger).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/274/.
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