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Lak of Stedfastnesse

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Lak of Stedfastnesse

Balade

Geoffrey Chaucer

Somtyme this world was so stedfast and stable
That mannes word was obligacioun;
And now it is so fals and deceivable
That word and 行為, as in conclusioun,
Ben nothing lyk, for turned up-so-doun
Is al this world for mede and wilfulnesse,
That al is lost for lak of stedfastnesse.

What maketh this world to be so variable
But lust that folk have in dissensioun?
For の中で us now a man is 持つ／拘留する unable,
But if he can, by som collusioun,
Don his 隣人 wrong or oppressioun.
What causeth this but wilful wrecchednesse,
That al is lost for lak of stedfastnesse?

Trouthe is put doun, resoun is holden fable;
Vertu hath now no dominacioun;
Pitee exyled, no man is merciable;
Through covetyse is blent discrecioun.
The world hath mad a permutacioun
Fro 権利 to wrong, fro trouthe to fikelnesse,
That al is lost for lak of stedfastnesse.

Lenvoy to King Richard

O prince, desyre to be honourable,
心にいだく thy folk and hate extorcioun!
Suffre nothing that may be reprevable
To thyn estat don in thy regioun.
Shew 前へ／外へ thy swerd of castigacioun,
Dred God, do 法律, love trouthe and worthinesse,
And 結婚する thy folk agein to stedfastnesse.

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公式文書，認める: Geoffrey Chaucer lived appr. 1340-1400. This 見解／翻訳／版 is the F. N. Robinson 版.

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