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

To saven whom him list, or elles spille;

But wikkedly he quitte her kindenesse,

And let her drenche in sorowe and distresse,

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Nere that the goddes hadde of her pite;

But that tale were to long as now for me.

[Athenes wan this king Minos also],

And Alcathoe and other tounes mo;

And this theffect, that Minos hath so driven

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