Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Hath ofter wo then changed is the mone.

Hit semeth he hath to lovers enmite,

And lyk a fissher, as men alday may see,

Baiteth his angle-hook with som plesaunce,

Til mony a fish is wood til that he be

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Sesed ther-with; and then at erst hath he

Al his desyr, and ther-with al mischaunce;

And thogh the lyne breke, he hath penaunce;