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

And aldermost desyred yow to see

Of any erthly living creature;

Upon my trouthe I swere, and yow assure,

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Thise seven yeer I have your [servant] be;

Now have I yow, and also have ye me,

My dere herte, [of Athenes duchesse]!'

This lady smyleth at his stedfastnesse,

And at his hertly wordes, and his chere,

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