Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus

by Geoffrey Chaucer

som-what.'

'And was nat that,' quod she, 'for that [thee lakked] som-what

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that thou noldest nat han lakked, or elles thou haddest that thou

noldest nat han had?'

'Right so is it,' quod I.

'Thanne desiredest thou the presence of that oon and the

absence of that other?'

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'I graunte wel,' quod I.