Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

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The air is twist with violence,

And rent; lo, this is my sentence;

Eek, whan men harpe-stringes smyte,

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Whether hit be moche or lyte,

Lo, with the strook the air to-breketh;

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Right so hit breketh whan men speketh.

Thus wost thou wel what thing is speche.