moonelight
Middle English
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- moonlight
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- His bridle as the sunne shone,
Or as the moonelight.- His bridle shone as the sun,
Or as the moonlight.
- His bridle shone as the sun,