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Or some of oke, or some of othir trees ; 

 Some in their hondis havin boughis shene, 

 Some of laurin, and some of okis bene, 

 Some of hawthorne, and some of the wodebind, 

 And many mo which I have not in mind. 



" And everich had a chapelet on her hed, 

 (Which did right wele upon the shining here) 

 Makid of goodly flouris white and red, 

 The knightis eke that they in honde led 

 In sute of them ware chaplets everichone ; 

 And before them went minstrels many one. 



" As harpis, pipis, lutis, and sautry, 

 Alle in grene, and ther hedis bare 

 Of diverse flouris made full craftily. 

 All in a sute, godely chaplets they ware, 

 And so dauncing into the mede they fare, 

 In mid the which they found a tuft that was 

 All ovirsprad with flowris in compas." 



In two different poems where Venus is represented, she 

 has a crown of white and red flowers : 



" I saw anone right her figure 

 Nakid yfletyng in a se, 

 And also on her hedde parde 

 Her rosy garland white and redde." 



In the KnightVTale he again describes the goddess 

 floating in the sea ; 



" And on hire hed, ful semely for to see 

 A rose gerlond fresh and wel-smelling 

 Above hire hed hire doves fleckering." 



" She gathereth floures, partie white and red, 

 To make a sotel gerlond for hire hed." 



St. Cecilia receives a miraculous crown of Roses and 

 lilies ; and Gupid is crowned with Roses. In the Romaunt 

 of the Rose, he describes himself as selecting from many 

 Roses the one which shall best please him : 



