L'envoy Of Chaucer To Bukton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DEDEEFEF GBGBBHBH EIEIIJIK| My Master Bukton when of Christ our King | A |
| Was asked What is truth or soothfastness | B |
| He not a word answer'd to that asking | A |
| As who saith no man is all true I guess | B |
| And therefore though I highte to express | B |
| The sorrow and woe that is in marriage | C |
| I dare not write of it no wickedness | B |
| Lest I myself fall eft in such dotage | C |
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| I will not say how that it is the chain | D |
| Of Satanas on which he gnaweth ever | E |
| But I dare say were he out of his pain | D |
| As by his will he would be bounden never | E |
| But thilke doated fool that eft had lever | E |
| Y chained be than out of prison creep | F |
| God let him never from his woe dissever | E |
| Nor no man him bewaile though he weep | F |
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| But yet lest thou do worse take a wife | G |
| Bet is to wed than burn in worse wise | B |
| But thou shalt have sorrow on thy flesh thy life | G |
| And be thy wife's thrall as say these wise | B |
| And if that Holy Writ may not suffice | B |
| Experience shall thee teache so may hap | H |
| That thee were lever to be taken in Frise | B |
| Than eft to fall of wedding in the trap | H |
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| This little writ proverbes or figure | E |
| I sende you take keep of it I read | I |
| Unwise is he that can no weal endure | E |
| If thou be sicker put thee not in dread | I |
| The Wife of Bath I pray you that you read | I |
| Of this mattere which that we have on hand | J |
| God grante you your life freely to lead | I |
| In freedom for full hard is to be bond | K |
Geoffrey Chaucer
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