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

†[Origenes upon the Maudeleyne];

†Him oghte now to have the lesse peyne;

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†He hath mad many a lay and many a thing.

†'Now as ye been a god, and eek a king,

†I, your [Alceste], whylom quene of Trace,

†I aske yow this man, right of your grace,

†That ye him never hurte in al his lyve;

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†And he shal sweren yow, and that as blyve,