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

by Geoffrey Chaucer

For to that folk, withouten any faile,

Withoute Pite may no bille availe.

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Then leve I al thise virtues, sauf Pite,

Keping the corps, as ye have herd me seyn,

Confedred alle by bonde of Crueltee,

And been assented that I shal be sleyn.

And I have put my compleynt up ageyn;

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For to my foos my bille I dar not shewe,