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And so did Keats, Shakespeare and Petrarch, and all the rest, and it was in The Romaunt of the Rose.

See also Romaunt de la rose, v.

The intimate life stories of no other periods in history are so well illustrated, nor so readily to be comprehended, as those of Homer and the authors of the medieval Romaunt.

“The Romaunt of the Rose” has the traditional refrain of other strictures in verse, when it declares that “Physiciens and advocates, Gon right by the same yates,yates, gates They selle hir science for winning.winning, gain ···· For they nil in no maner greeno kind of good will Do right nought for charitee.”

The famous Medi�val "Romaunt de la Rose" turns upon this.