For-why this is your owene hous, pardee.

For, by my trouthe, I sey it nought a-game,

To wende as now, it were to me a shame.'

92. Criseyde, whiche that coude as muche good

As half a world, tok hede of his preyere;

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And sin it [ron], and al was on a flood,

She thoughte, as good chep may I dwellen here,

And graunte it gladly with a freendes chere,

And have a thank, as grucche and thanne abyde;