AURELIE, AURELIUS, AURELYUS is the young squire who loves Dorigen in The Franklin's Tale. He sees her first on the 6th of May, as she dances with her friends in a public garden. For more than two years he loves her as secretly as Pamphilles loved Galatea. He is a servant of Venus and devoted to Apollo. Rashly promising to return his love if he makes the rocks disappear from the seacoast, Dorigen is appalled when Aurelius engages a magician who performs the feat. But her husband Arveragus insists that she keep her word, and all ends well. [Apollo: Arveragus: Dorigen: Galathee: Pamphilles: Phebus]

Aurelie appears four times initially, FranklT 929, and medially FranklT 989, 1007, 1037; Aurelius occurs nine times initially, FranklT 1006, 1188, 1226, 1241, 1256, 1297, 1514, 1557, 1592; four times in medial positions, FranklT 1020, 1100, 1183, 1235; and six times in final rhyming position, FranklT 938, 965, 970, 979, 1303, 1499. Aurelyus, a spelling variant, occurs once, in final rhyming position, FranklT 1102.