Chaucerian and Other Pieces / Being a Supplement to the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

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To take vengeaunce of wilful crueltè;

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And tonges false, through hir sleightly wyle,

Han gonne a werre that wil not stinted be;

And fals Envye, Wrathe, and Enmitè,

Have conspired, ayeines al right and lawe,

Of hir malyce, that Trouthe shal be slawe.

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And Male-Bouche gan first the tale telle,

To slaundre Trouthe, of indignacioun;