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Cligés · 1914

Lines 2707–2724

by Chrétien de Troyes fl. c. 1160–1190

Translated by W. W. Comfort (Everyman's Library, 1914)


Great was the crowd of people, and great the joy of the two emperors when they met. When the barons had gathered in the vast palace, the emperor summoned his charming daughter. The maiden made no delay in coming straightway into the palace. She had been made very fair and shapely by the Creator, whose pleasure it had been to arouse the people's admiration. God, who had fashioned her, never gave man a word which could adequately express such beauty as she possessed.

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Troyes, Chrétien de. Cligés, Lines 2707–2724. Translated by W. W. Comfort. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/cliges-comfort/42/.

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Troyes, Chrétien de. Cligés, Lines 2707–2724. Translated by W. W. Comfort. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/cliges-comfort/42/.

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