Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 3 N faith, Squier, thou hast the wel y quit And gentilly, I preise wel thy wit, ' Quod the Frankeleyn, considering thin yonthe, So felingly thou spekest, sire, I alowe the, As to my dome, ther is non that is here, Of eloquence that schal be thy pere, If that thou live; God geve thee goode chaunce, And in vertue send the continuaunce, For of thy speking I have gret deinte. 1 have a sone, and by the Trinite It were me lever than twenty pound worth 10nd, Though it right now were fallen in myn hond, He were a man of swich discretion, As that ye ben fie on possession, But-if a man be vertuous withal! I have my sone snibbed, and yet shal, For he to vertue listeth not to entende, But for to play at dis, and to dispende. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.