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 Yet, though this be not, yet, in happy time, Our father Chaucer, here we praise thy name.

Friend, even as bees about the flowering thyme, Years crowd on years, till hoar decay begrime Names once beloved; but, seeing the sun the same, As birds of autumn fain to praise the prime, Our father Chaucer, here we praise thy name.