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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Geoffrey Chaucer. 1340?1400
10. The Love Unfeigned
O YONGE fresshe folkes, he or she, | |
In which that love up groweth with your age, | |
Repeyreth hoom from worldly vanitee, | |
And of your herte up-casteth the visage | |
To thilke god that after his image | 5 |
Yow made, and thinketh al nis but a fayre | |
This world, that passeth sone as floures fayre. | |
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And loveth him, the which that right for love | |
Upon a cros, our soules for to beye, | |
First starf, and roos, and sit in hevene a-bove; | 10 |
For he nil falsen no wight, dar I seye, | |
That wol his herte al hoolly on him leye. | |
And sin he best to love is, and most meke, | |
What nedeth feyned loves for to seke? | |
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GLOSS: repeyreth] repair ye. starf] died. |