“Hostë,” quoth he, “ de par dieux jeo asente ; 1410 To breakë forword is not mine intent. Behest is debt, and I would hold it fain, All my behest; I can no better sayn. For such law as a man gives another wight, He should himselfë usen it by right. Thus will our text: but natheless certáin I can right now no thrifty 1411 talë sayn, But Chaucer (though he can but lewëdly 1412 On metres and on rhyming craftily) Hath said them, in such English as he can, Of oldë time, as knoweth many a man. And if he have not said them, levë 1413 brother, In one book, he hath said them in another For he hath told of lovers up and down, More than Ovidë made of mentioun