Copyright, 1879, BY HOUGHTON, OSGOOD & CO. All rights reserved. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY THE HOUSE OF FAME.1 4 FIRST BOOK. Proem. GOD turne us every dreme to goode ! For hyt is wonder, be the Roode,2 To my wytte, what causeth swevenes Eyther on morwes, or on evenes ; And why theffecte folweth of somme, And why this a revelacioun ; 8 Why this a dreme, why that a swevene, Ne kan hem noght, ne never thinke ΙΟ 1 Professor Bernhard Ten Brink, in his Studien, pp. 89-94, points out the suggestions that Chaucer derived for this poem from Dante, and says that the general plot is imitated from the Divina Commedia. The coincidences are indicated in the notes. A number of lines also resemble passages in Virgil's Eneid and in Ovid's Metamorphoses. ? Holy Rood 3 Visions. 4 Belabor. |