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 that hit warneth alle and somme

Of everiche of hir aventures

[By avisiouns], or by figures,

But that our flesh ne hath no might

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To understonden hit aright,

For hit is warned to derkly;—

But why the cause is, noght wot I.

[Wel worthe], of this thing, grete clerkes,

That trete of this and other werkes;