He had a book, that gladly night and day For his disport he would it read alway; He call’d it Valerie, 1980 and Theophrast, And with that book he laugh’d alway full fast. And eke there was a clerk sometime at Rome, A cardinal, that hightë Saint Jerome, That made a book against Jovinian, Which book was there; and eke Tertullian, Chrysippus, Trotula, and Heloïse, That was an abbess not far from Paris; And eke the Parables 1981 of Solomon, Ovidë’s Art , 1982 and bourdës 1983 many one; And allë these were bound in one volume. And every night and day was his custume

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