text:  In Chaucer Arcite's address to the "mery May" is but of three plain lines and they suffice; in Dryden of ten ornate and they suffice too--"alike but oh! how different!" The plain three are more in character for Arcite was thinking of Emelie all the while--but the ornate ten are in season now for summer has come at last and recite them to yourself and Amaryllis in the shade