Medieval Quote

If love be good, from whennes comth my wo? / If it be wikke, a wonder thinketh me, / When every torment and adversitee / That cometh of him, may to me savory thinke; / For ay thurst I, the more that I it drinke.

- Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (I, Stanza 58, Line 402-6)
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