Chaucer made the same experiment, though a little irregularly, in the Compleynt to his Lady.
This line is repeated from the Compleynt of Mars, l.
Johan, with St. John for their security or protection; probably suggested by The Compleynt of Mars, l.
The idea is due to Chaucer's Compleynt to Pity; cf.
I pray yow sende me worde if ye wyl that I make any compleynt to the Duke or the Duchesse; for as it is tolde me, they know not the pleynesse that hathe ben don in such thyngys as hathe ben don in her [their] namys.
This poem has frequently been printed as if it formed a part of The Compleynt of Mars; but it is a separate poem, and belongs to a later period.
The Compleynt of Mars is an original poem; but the present poem is a translation, being partly adapted, and partly translated from three Balades by Sir Otes de Graunson (l.
The ordre of compleynt requireth skilfully, 155 That if a wight shal pleyne pitously, There mot be cause wherfor that men pleyne; Or men may deme he pleyneth folily And causeles; alas!
It also becomes probable that the title 'The Compleynt of Venus,' which seems to have been suggested by Shirley, is by no means a fitting one.
The Compleynt of Venus, like Fortune, is in three ballades, with one envoy, and is of special interest as being based on three French ballades of Graunson.
But that is doon, nis not to done; Al hir compleynt ne al hir mone, Certeyn, availeth hir not a stre.
Envoys" to his friends Scogan and Bukton, a translation of some balades by Sir Otes de Granson, and the Compleynt to his Purs complete the record of his minor poetry.
Compleynt to his Purs, in the envoy to which Chaucer addresses him as the "conquerour of Brutes Albioun.
Thei mad a compleynt to my Lady Felbrygge, and my mastres had excused it.
Chaucer imitated in his later years his "Compleynt of Venus," from a poem of "Graunson, flour of hem that make in Fraunce.
This influence may have come in later, but even in Chaucer's early Compleynt to Pitee (according to Ten Brink, Geschichte der englischen Literatur, ii.
That ye hym here haue as your prysonere ¶ I shall shew my compleynt soo.
Tender my compleynt as rygure requyreth instead of ¶ Shew forth youre sentence {with} a breef clause sentence ¶ I may not longe tary the tyme fast expyreth Original has ¶ The offence is grete wherfore it desyreth.
Seothe to this mater of mercy and of grace, And or thees dotardes parte out of this place, Vpon theyre compleynt to shape remedye, Or they beo likly to stande in iupardye.
In the Compleynt of Mars the comparative sizes and velocities of the spheres of Mercury, Venus and Mars are made the basis for most of the action of the poem.
Besides the reference in the Compleynt of Mars to the conjunction of Venus and Mars[131], there are occasional references in Chaucer to conjunctions of other planets.
The myth of the amour between Venus and Mars, which Chaucer makes the basis of his poem the Compleynt of Mars, would explain why Venus was able to influence Mars in this way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compleynt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
