Chaucer’s Words to His Scrivener.

ADAM Scrivener, if ever it thee befall Boece or Troilus for to write anew, Under thy long locks thou may’st have the scall scab But after my making thou write more true! according to my So oft a day I must thy work renew, composing It to correct, and eke to rub and scrape; And all is through thy negligence and rape. haste