| Front | the Book of Duchess |
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| Back | poem Chaucer 1368 on the death of Blanche, duchess of Lancaster , the first wife of John of Gaunt dream vision unable to sleep because of some sickness or depression , the narrator reads a truncated version of Ovid 's story of Ceyx and Alcyone. he tells the story which ends before the metamorphosis and prays to Morpheus he falls asleep and narrates a dream in which he first watches and then wanders away from the hunt of the emperor Octivian and comes upon a knight in black lamenting the latter describes his love for the lady white and his life with her, and tells the dreamer at first in a metaphor but finally explicitly of her death,. at this point the dream ends and the narrator awakes determines to write the poem |
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