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Along the station platform each of the fiacre drivers seizes a large dinner-bell and tries to outring the others.

One of the most beautiful passages in Chaucer's tale is the description of Cresseide's first avowal of her love:      And as the new abashed nightingale,      That stinteth first when she beginneth sing,      When that she heareth any herde's tale,      Or in the hedges any wight stirring,      And, after, sicker doth her voice outring;      Right so Cresseide, when that her dread stent,      Opened her heart, and told him her intent.

But patience! there may come a time    When these dull ears shall scan aright Strains that outring Earth's drowsy chime,    As Heaven outshines the taper's light.

Or shall we paint a maid with vermeil cheek, Who, with her page behind, to vespers fares, Beside her mother, dreamy-eyed and meek, And on her half-oped lips forgets her prayers, Trembles midst echoing columns, hearkening To hear her bold knight's clanging spurs outring.