Al hadde folkes hertes been of stones, Hit mighte have maked hem upon her rewe, Her herte was so wyfly and so trewe.
That is trew, wherfore your grace shal trewly The hertes of such as I am have surely.
No dout yt is so, for so we now fynde; Wherin your grace us rangers so doth bynde, 1225 That we shall gyve you our hertes with one accorde, For knowledge to know you as our onely lorde.
And hadde I might as good as I have wille, 80 Than shulde ye fele wher it wer so or noon; For in this worlde living is ther noon That fayner wolde your hertes wil fulfille.
Myn hertesgyde but they be, I praise no-thing what ever they see.
And she of hirs may him, certeyn, Withoute sclaundre, yeven ageyn, And ioyne her hertes togidre so 5075 In love, and take and yeve also.
And but your word wol helen hastily My hertes wounde, whyl that hit is grene, 5 Your yen two wol slee me sodenly, I may the beaute of hem not sustene.
Therwith she was alway so trewe, Our Ioye was ever y-liche newe; Our hertes wern so even a payre, That never nas that oon contrayre 1290 To that other, for no wo.
Ye be my lyf, ye be myn hertes stere, Quene of comfort and of good companye: Beth hevy ageyn, or elles mot I dye!
This lady brought in hir right hond 3705 Of brenning fyr a blasing brond; Wherof the flawme and hote fyr Hath many a lady in desyr Of love brought, and sore het, And in hir servise hir hertes set.
The amiable Fortune bindeth with the beautee of false goodes the hertes of folk that usen hem; the contrarie Fortune unbindeth hem by the 15 knowinge of freele welefulnesse.
Han they nat so gret strengthe, that they may putte vertues in the hertes of folk that usen the lordshipes of hem?
But for the love of god, sin ye be brought In thus good plyt, lat now non hevy thought Ben hanginge in the hertes of yow tweye:' 1140 And bar the candele to the chimeneye.
But, Troilus, yet tel me, if thee lest, A thing now which that I shal axen thee; 1395 Which is thy brother that thou lovest best As in thy verray hertes privetee?
Y-wis, myn hertes day, my lady free, 1405 So thursteth ay myn herte to biholde Your beautee, that my lyf unnethe I holde.
Sin ye Cryseyde and me han fully brought In-to your grace, and bothe our hertes seled, How may ye suffre, allas!
And as the briddes, whan the sonne is shene, Delyten in hir song in leves grene, Right so the wordes that they spake y-fere Delyted hem, and made hir hertes clere.
Ye armen your servauntes ayenst al debates with imperciable harneys; ye setten in herhertes insuperable blood of 45 hardinesse; ye leden hem to the parfit good.
Therfore grace and goodnesse of a wight is founde; the sorouful hertes in good meninge to endure, ben comforted; unite and acord bitwene hertes knit in joye to 90 abyde.
Thilke people than, that setten their hertes upon suche mightes and powers, often ben begyled.
Now forth; I close thee, in holy Venus name; 70 Thee shal unclose my hertes governeresse.
Slepe, and suffre him that knoweth previte of hertes to dele suche fame in thilke place there nothing 110 ayenst a sothe shal neither speke ne dare apere, by attourney ne by other maner.
Also, lady, ye knowen al the privy thoughtes; in hertes no counsayl may ben hid from your knowing.
Bot al was knowe er that thei wente; For god, which wot here hol entente, 1710 Here hertes bothe anon descloseth.
Thus ech of other token hiede, Thogh ther no word was of record; Here hertes bothe of on acord 3390 Ben set to love, bot as tho Ther mihten be no wordes mo.
Whan suche softe wyndes blewen Of flaterie into here Ere, Thei setten noght here hertes there; 2440 Bot whan thei herden wordes feigned, The pleine trouthe it hath desdeigned Of hem that weren so discrete.
Riht as myn yhe with his lok Is to myn herte a lusti coc Of loves fode delicat, Riht so myn Ere in his astat, 830 Wher as myn yhe mai noght serve, Can wel myn hertes thonk deserve And fieden him fro day to day With suche deyntes as he may.
And over that yit he hem wisseth, And seith that which of hem ferst kisseth 4730 His moder, he schal take wrieche Upon the wrong: and of that speche Thei ben withinne herehertes glade, Thogh thei outward no semblant made.
And be this skile Manachas Ansuered hath upon this cas, And seith that wyn be weie of kinde Is thing which mai the hertes binde 1870 Wel more than the regalie.
Prayinge Almighty God to have yow in his kepinge and sende yow right gode lif and longe, after your awne hertes desire.
All this I remitte to your good remembraunce with Goddes help, to Whom I pray to gyde your ryght to his worshep and your hertes desire.
I pray you what motherlye hertes haue those women, whiche dandle in their lap their chyldren tyl they be almost seuen yeres old, and in maner make thẽ fooles?
Howe discoraged be the fathers in theyr hertes if their wyfe brynge forthe a naturall, & an infante of a brute mynde?
For he can make of lowe hertes hye, And of hye lowe, and lyke for to dye, And harde hertes he can maken free.
An thou watery dyane of the se the goddes With thy broder eolus the god of the wynde Encourage the hertes by in warde hardynes Of .
The clene hertes Christ He curteyliche blissed 1270 That coveten no catel But Christes fulle blysse, That leveth fulliche on God, And lelliche thenketh On his lore and his lawe, And lyveth opon trewthe.
Ac if ye riche have ruthe, And rewarde wel the poore, 9210 And lyven as lawe techeth, And doon leaute to hem alle, Crist of his curteisie Shal conforte yow at the laste, And rewarden alle double richesse That rewful hertes habbeth.
In lyknesse he tolde, That in povernesse of spyrit Is spedfullest hele; And hertes of heyne Harmeth the soule.
Disposeth ay your hertes to withstonde The feend, that yow wolde make thral and bonde.
An hundred lordes hadde he in his route Armed ful wel, with hertes sterne and stoute.
Repleccioun ne made hir never syk; Attempree dyete was al hir phisyk, And exercyse, and hertes suffisaunce.
From hir childhede I finde that she fledde 3445 Office of wommen, and to wode she wente; And many a wilde hertes blood she shedde With arwes brode that she to hem sente.
Now wol I stinte of this Arveragus, And speken I wole of Dorigene his wyf, 815 That loveth hir housbonde as hir hertes lyf.
And with-inne the hertes of folk shal be the bytinge conscience, and with-oute-forth shal be the world al brenninge.
To your conning, my hertes right princesse, 25 My mortal fo, whiche I best love and serve, I recommaunde my boistous lewednesse.
For every wight that hath an hous to founde 1065 Ne renneth nought the werk for to biginne With rakel hond, but he wol byde a stounde, And sende his hertes lyne out fro with-inne Alderfirst his purpos for to winne.
Swich is this world; who-so it can biholde, In eche estat is litel hertes reste; God leve us for to take it for the beste!
And hertes colde, hem wolde I that he twiste To make hem love, and that hem leste ay rewe 1770 On hertes sore, and kepe hem that ben trewe.
And with that word he for a quisshen ran, And seyde, `Kneleth now, whyl that yow leste, 965 Ther god your hertesbringe sone at reste!
Nay, nay, but ever in oon be fresh and grene To serve and love his dere hertes quene, And thenke it is a guerdoun hir to serve A thousand-fold more than he can deserve.
O sonnes lief, O Ioves doughter dere, Plesaunce of love, O goodly debonaire, In gentilhertes ay redy to repaire!
For sith it liketh yow, my lord, quod sche, That whilom were al mynhertes reste, once That I schal gon, I wol go whan yow leste.
Madame, I speke it for thonour of yow you More than to save myn hertes lif right now: I have do so as ye comaundede me, And if ye vouchesauf ye maye go se.
Syr, for Godes sake, in as hasty wyse as is possybyll, send me woord how ye feele my Lord Chamberleyn and Bowen dysposed to me wardes, for I shall never be in hertes ease tyll I undyrstand ther tweys dysposysyon.
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