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

But al for noght; for thus she seide anoon,

'Be as be may,' quod she, 'of forgiving,

I wol nat have no forgift for no-thing.'

But prively she caughte forth a knyf,

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And therwith-al she rafte her-self her lyf;

[And as she fel adoun, she caste her look],

And of her clothes yit she hede took;

For in her falling yit she hadde care

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