Walter William Skeat

Chaucer's Works (ed. Skeat) Vol… (1900)

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Walter William Skeat,  Chaucer's Works (ed. Skeat) Vol… (1900)

“ Thou rote of false lovers, duk Iasoun!
Thou sly devourer and confusioun
Of gentil-wommen, tender creatures, 1370
Thou madest thy reclaiming and thy lures
To ladies of thy statly apparaunce,
And of thy wordes, farced with plesaunce,
And of thy feyned trouthe and thy manere,
With thyn obeisaunce and thy humble chere, 1375
And with thy counterfeted peyne and wo.
Ther other falsen oon, thou falsest two! (10)
O! ofte swore thou that thou woldest dye
For love, whan thou ne feltest maladye
Save foul delyt, which that thou callest love! ”
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Walter William Skeat,  Chaucer's Works (ed. Skeat) Vol… (1900)

“ Have at thee, Iasoun! now thyn horn is blowe!
But certes, hit is bothe routhe and wo
That love with false loveres werketh so; 1385
For they shul have wel better love and chere
Than he that hath aboght his love ful dere, (20)
Or had in armes many a blody box.
For ever as tendre a capoun et the fox,
Thogh he be fals and hath the foul betrayed, 1390
As shal the good-man that ther-for hath payed.
Al have he to the capoun skille and right,
The false fox wol have his part at night.
On Iasoun this ensample is wel y-sene
By Isiphile and Medea the quene. ”
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