Chaucer Gallery
eChaucer ¤ Chaucer in the Twenty-First Century
The Kelmscott Chaucer - The House of Fame
That is, that thou hast no tydynges Of Loves folk (yf they be glade), Ne of noght elles that God made; And noght oonly fro fer countree That ther no tydynge cometh to thee, But of thy verray neyghebores, That duellen almost at thy dores, Thou herist neyther that ne this; For when thy labour doon al ys, And hast mad alle thy rekenynges, In stede of reste and newe thynges Thou goost hom to thy hous anoon, And, also domb as any stoon, Thou sittest at another book Tyl fully daswed ys thy look; And lyvest thus as an heremyte, Although thyn abstynence ys lyte. House of Fame 644-60