Geoffrey Chaucer,
Balade to Rosemounde
“ My love may not be cooled nor sunk, I burn in an amourous pleasance. Do what you like, I bid you find your thrall Though you, to me, do no dalliance. very gently————//————Chaucer ↑ "Never was pike so imbued in galantine / As I in love, am imbued and wounded" is an allusion to the 15th-century habit of drenching the fish in sauce. The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, vol. 1, edited by Rev. Walter W. Skea. original manuscript Footnotes This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content. ”
