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

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Arteys, and Fraunce, and up in hy Holand,

In Burgoyne, Naples, and [in] Italy,

Naverne, and Grece, and up in hethen land,

1230

Was never woman yit that wold withstand

To ben at myn commaundement, whan I wold:

I lakked neither silver, coin, ne gold.

And there I met with this estate and that;

And here I broched her, and here, I trow:

1235