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 thoughte wel, that hit was al a-mis;

For in his bedde he lyth a-night and syketh;

(370)

She asketh him anoon, what him mislyketh—

'My dere herte, which that I love most?'

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['Certes,' quod he, 'this night my fadres gost]

Hath in my sleep so sore me tormented,

And eek [Mercurie] his message hath presented,

That nedes to the conquest of Itaile