Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Y-wis, I suffre nought the lasse peyne. 105
`Thus muche as now, O wommanliche wyf, I may out-bringe, and if this yow displese, That shal I wreke upon myn owne lyf Right sone, I trowe, and doon your herte an ese, If with my deeth your herte I may apese. 110 But sin that ye han herd me som-what seye, Now recche I never how sone that I deye.' Ther-with his manly sorwe to biholde, It mighte han maad an herte of stoon to rewe; And Pandare weep as he to watre wolde, 115 And poked ever his nece newe and newe, And seyde, `Wo bigon ben hertes trewe! For love of god, make of this thing an ende, Or slee us bothe at ones, er that ye wende.' `I? What?' quod she, `By god and by my trouthe, 120 I noot nought what ye wilne that I seye.' `I? What?' quod he, `That ye han on him routhe, For goddes love, and doth him nought to deye.' `Now thanne thus,' quod she, `I wolde him preye To telle me the fyn of his entente; 125 Yet wist I never wel what that he mente.' `What that I mene, O swete herte dere?' Quod Troilus, `O goodly, fresshe free! That, with the stremes of your eyen clere, Ye wolde som-tyme freendly on me see, 130 |
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