What governance is in this prescience,
That guiltless torments innocence?
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The answer of this I leave to divines,
But well I know that this world great pain is.
(modernized)
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The Riverside Chaucer! I got a large book, but free here: chaucer.fas.harvard.edu
I am listening to a recording, on the grounds that all poetry should be read aloud.
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