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

*Yet Pitee, through his stronge gentil might,

*Forgaf, and made Mercy passen Right,

*[Through innocence and ruled curtesye].

*But [I ne clepe nat innocence folye],

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*Ne fals pitee, for 'vertu is the mene,'

*As [Etik] saith, in swich maner I mene.

*And thus thise foules, voide of al malyce,

*Acordeden to love, and laften vyce

*Of hate, and songen alle of oon acord,