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And in Chaucer's "January and May," v. 1234.

"Gower, in the "," may perhaps have copied the circumstance of the morning trumpet from this apologue.

It so befell, that on a day There was ordained by the lawe A trump with a stern breath, Which was cleped the trump of death: And in the court where the king was, A certain man this trumpe of brass Hath in keeping, and thereof serveth, That when a lord his death deserveth. He shall this dreadful trump-e blow, Before his gate, to make it know,