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

by Geoffrey Chaucer

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For I am nat so hardy ne so wood

For to desire that ye shulde love me;

For wel I wot, allas! that may nat be;

I am so litel worthy, and ye so good.

For ye be oon the worthiest on-lyve,

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And I the most unlykly for to thryve;

Yit, for al this, [now] witeth ye right wele,

That ye ne shul me from your service dryve