My dere herte, and best beloved fo, Why lyketh yow to do me al this wo, 65 What have I doon that greveth yow, or sayd, But for I serve and love yow and no mo?
And aftir this, whan Ielousye Had Bialacoil in his baillye, And shette him up that was so free, For seure of him he wolde be, He trusteth sore in his castel; 4305 The stronge werk him lyketh wel.
Thou pinchest at my mutabilitee, For I thee lente a drope of my richesse, And now me lyketh to with-drawe me.
Grisilde,' quod he, as it were in his pley, 1030 'How lyketh thee my wyf and hir beautee?
The angel seyde, 'god lyketh thy requeste, And bothe, with the palm of martirdom, 240 Ye shullen come unto his blisful feste.
Now preye I to hem alle that herkne this litel tretis or rede, that if ther be any thing in it that lyketh hem, that ther-of they thanken oure lord Iesu Crist, of whom procedeth al wit and al goodnesse.
Thembassadours ben answered for fynal, 145 Theschaunge of prisoners and al this nede Hem lyketh wel, and forth in they procede.
Now it lyketh me to with-drawen my hand; thou hast had grace as he that hath used of foreine goodes: thou hast no right to pleyne thee, as though thou haddest outrely for-lorn alle thy thinges.
But yif thee lyketh thanne to loken on the derknesse of the erthe that thou hast forleten, thanne shalt thou seen that thise felonous tyraunts, that the wrecchede peple dredeth, now shollen ben exyled fro thilke fayre contree.
And yif yow lyketh to hunte to roes, ye ne gon nat to the fordes of the water that highte Tyrene.
Al that lyketh yow heer, and excyteth and moeveth your thoughtes, the erthe hath norisshed it in hise lowe caves.
IV He blaws it east, he blaws it west, He blaws it where he lyketh best.
They been so freel, they mowe hem nat refreyne; But who-so lyketh may hem lightly have; So been hir hertes esy in to grave.
I am so shaken with the fevers whyte, Of al this May yet slepte I but a lyte; And also it naught lyketh unto me, That any herte shulde slepy be In whom that Love his fyry dart wol smyte.
In my Legende of Martres men may fynde (Who-so that lyketh therin for to rede) That ooth noon ne behest may no man bynde; Of reprevable shame han they no drede.
Therwith they purchase hem lay-fee In londe, there hem lyketh best, And builde +als brode as a cite Both in the est, and eke in the west.
Now freendes,' seide our Host so dere, 'How lyketh yow by Iohn the Pardonere?
By preve as wel as by auctoritee, That wikked fruit cometh of a wikked tree, 2395 That may ye finde, if that it lyketh yow.
This honourable Phillis doth him chere, Her lyketh wel his port and his manere.
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