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

Thou madest thy [reclaiming] and thy lures

To ladies of thy statly apparaunce,

And [of] thy wordes, [farced] with plesaunce,

And of thy feyned trouthe and thy manere,

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With thyn obeisaunce and thy humble chere,

And with thy counterfeted peyne and wo.

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[Ther other falsen oon, thou falsest two!]

O! ofte swore thou that thou woldest dye