Perle, plesaunte to prynces paye To clanly clos in golde so clere, Oute of Oryent, I hardyly saye, Ne proved I never her precios pere. — The Pearl, 1300s The Pearl, the fourteenth century poem assumed to have been written by the same author as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc., is an allegorical tale of […]
