TESTO DEL LIED

"Since I from love"
di Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400)

Since I from Love escapëd am so fat,
I never think to ben in his prison lean;
Since I am free, I count him not a bean.
He may answer, and sayë this or that;
I do not force, I speak right as I mean:
Since I from Love escapëd am so fat,
I never think to ben in his prison lean;
Love hath my name y-strike out of his sciat,
And he is stike out of my bookës clean
For evermore; there is none other mean.
Since I from Love escapëd am so fat,
I never think to ben in his prison lean;
Since I am free, I count him not a bean.