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

I am with-holde yit with never nother.

I not who serveth leef, ne who the flour;

That nis nothing the entent of my labour.

For this werk is al of another tunne,

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Of olde story, er [swich stryf] was begunne.

(B. 97)

†[But wherfor that I spak], to yeve credence

To bokes olde and doon hem reverence,

Is for men shulde autoritees beleve,