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

Right after hir imaginacioun,

To have your daliance, and for envye;

*[These been the causes, and I shall nat lye].

Envye is [lavender] of the court alway;

†For she ne [parteth], neither night ne day,

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†Out of the hous of Cesar; thus seith Dante;

[Who-so that goth, algate she wol nat wante].

From B. 350, 351.

This man to yow may falsly been accused,