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

She hath hit kist ful ofte for his sake;

And seide, 'O [cloth], [whyl Iupiter hit leste],

Tak now my soule, [unbind me of this unreste]!

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I have fulfild of fortune al the cours.'

And thus, allas! [with-outen] his socours,

Twenty tyme y-swowned hath she thanne.

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And, whan that she un-to her suster Anne

Compleyned had, of which I may nat wryte—