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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And songen, '[blessed be seynt Valentyn]!

For on his day I [chees] yow to be myn,

†Withouten repenting, myn herte swete!'

†And therwith-al hir bekes gonnen mete,

Yelding honour and humble obeisaunces

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To love, and diden hir other observaunces

That longeth unto love and to nature;

*Construeth that as yow list, I do no cure.