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

If that thou live, thou shalt repenten this

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So cruelly, that hit shal wel be sene!'

Tho spak this lady, clothed al in grene,

†And seyde, 'god, right of your curtesye,

†[Ye moten herknen if he can replye]

Agayns al this that ye han to him meved;

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†A god ne sholde nat be thus agreved,

†But of his deitee he shal be stable,