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

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And erne my mete yer that I dyne.

To swete and swinke I make avow,

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My wyf and children therwith to fynd,

And servë god, and I wist how;

But we lewd men ben full[y] blynd.

For clerkes saye, we shullen be fayn

For hir lyvelod [to] swete and swinke,

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And they right nought us give agayn,