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

*And tho that hadde doon unkindenesse—

*As dooth the [tydif], for new-fangelnesse—

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*Besoghte mercy of hir trespassinge,

*And humblely songen hir repentinge,

*And sworen on the blosmes to be trewe,

*[So that hir makes wolde upon hem rewe],

*And at the laste maden hir acord.

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*Al founde they [Daunger] for a tyme a lord,