text:  Have we think ye gentle lovers of Chaucer rightly understood the possibly somewhat obscure intention of the two verses at the beginning of our extract-- "But I bequethe the service of my gost To you?" We have accepted "service" in the sense which agreeably to our erudition it eminently holds the old love-vocabulary--homage devotion LOVE; the pure and entire dedication by the lover of his whole being to his lady