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"A compleynt hadde I, writen, in myn hond..."

"A compleynt hadde I, writen, in myn hond..."
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"A compleynt hadde I, writen, in myn hond..."

by: Edward Coley Burne-Jones (Artist) from: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer (P. 240) -  1958
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"The Compleynte unto Pite" "A compleynt hadde I, writen, in myn hond, For to have put to Pite as a bille, But whan I al this companye ther fond, That rather wolden al my cause spille Than do me help, I held my pleynte stille; For to that folk, withouten any faile, Withoute Pite may no bille availe." (p. 225)