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

Farwel my book and my devocioun!

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Now have I than swich a [condicioun],

†[That], of alle the floures in the mede,

†Than love I most these floures whyte and rede,

†Swiche as men callen [daysies] in our toun.

†To hem have I so greet affeccioun,

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†As I seyde erst, whan comen is the May,

†[That in my bed ther daweth me no day]