Allegorical dream vision (translation from Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun) · c. 1370s

The Romaunt of the Rose

by Geoffrey Chaucer

A dreamer enters the walled Garden of Love and sets his heart on a rosebud, helped and hindered by allegorical figures such as Fair Welcome, Danger and Reason, in the English version of the great French allegory.

Contents · 3 parts

• Fragment Aabout 1710 lines
• Fragment Babout 4110 lines
• Fragment Cabout 1890 lines

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