If that thise men that lovers hem pretende, To women weren … - Thomas Hoccleve

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If that thise men that lovers hem pretende,
To women weren feythfull good and trewe,
And dreden hem to deceyven or offende,
Women, to love hem, wolde nat eschewe;
But every day hath man an herte newe:
Yt, upon oon, abide can no while.
What fore ys it, swich a wight to be-gile?

Thomas Hoccleve

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Thomas Occleve (or Hoccleve) (c. 1368 – 1426) was an English poet and civil servant. Occleve and John Lydgate are usually seen as the leading English poets of the early 15th century.

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