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

For him as ever I was for any man;

And, to his help, the beste reed I can

Is that we doon the gayler prively

To come, and speke with us hastily,

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[And doon this woful man with him to come].

For if he may this monstre overcome,

Than were he [quit]; ther is noon other bote.

Lat us wel [taste] him at his herte-rote,

That, if so be that he a wepen have,