Since I from Love

SINCE I from Love <1>

SINCE I from Love escaped am so fat,
I ne'er think to be in his prison ta'en;
Since I am free, I count him not a bean.

He may answer, and saye this and that;
I *do no force,* I speak right as I mean;. . . . . . . . . . .*care not*
Since I from Love escaped am so fat.

Love hath my name struck out of his slat,*. . . . . . . . . *slate, list
And he is struck out of my bookes clean,
For ever more; there is none other mean;
Since I from Love escaped am so fat.

Notes to "Since I from Love"

1. (Transcriber's note: Modern scholars believe that Chaucer
was not the author of this poem)

-THE END-
Geoffrey Chaucer's poem: SINCE I from Love

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