Flee fro the prees, and dwelle with sothfastnesse, Suffyce unto thy good, though hit be smal; For hord hath hate, and climbing tikelnesse, Prees hath envye, and wele blent overal; Savour no more than thee bihove shal; Werk wel thy-self, that other folk canst rede; And trouthe shal delivere, hit is no drede. Tempest thee noght al croked to redresse, In trust of hir that turneth as a bal: Gret reste slant in litel besinesse; And eek be war to sporne ageyn an al; Stryve noght, as doth the crokke with the wal. Daunte thy-self, that dauntest otheres dede; And trouthe shal delivere, hit is no drede. That thee is sent, receyve in buxumnesse; The wrastling for this worlde axeth a fal. Her nis non hoom, her nis but wildernesse: Forth, pilgrim, forth! Forth, beste, out of thy stal! Know thy contree, look up, thank God of al; Hold the hye wey, and lat thy gost thee lede: And trouthe shal delivere, hit is no drede. _Envoy_ Therfore, thou vache, leve thyn old wrecchednesse Unto the worlde; leve now to be thral; Crye him mercy, that of his hy goodnesse Made thee of noght, and in especial Draw unto him, and pray in general For thee, and eek for other, hevenlich mede; And trouthe shal delivere, hit is no drede. (CHAUCER: _Balade de bon conseyl._ ab. 1385.) Here Chaucer follows the rules of the ballade carefully, but in the "rime royal" stanza. It will be noticed that the rime-word "al" seems to be repeated, but it is used each time in a distinct sense, hence--according to the rules of Chaucer's time, as of modern French--is regarded as a different rime-word each time. Compare, also, Chaucer's _Fortune_ ("_Balades de visage sanz peinture_"), made of three ballades, with one envoy; the _Balade to Rosemound_ and _Moral Balade on Gentilesse_, without envoys; the ballades on _Lak of Stedfastnesse_ and the _Compleint of Chaucer to his Empty Purse_, with envoys addressed to the king; also the ballade in the Prologue to the _Legend of Good Women_, B-text, ll. 249-269. The _Compleynt of Venus_, like _Fortune_, is in three ballades, with one envoy, and is of special interest as being based on three French ballades of Graunson.[48] Says Chaucer: "And eek to me hit is a greet penaunce, Sith rym in English hath swich scarsitee, To folowe word by word the curiositee Of Graunson, flour of hem that make in Fraunce." In the Prologue to the _Legend of Good Women_, when Chaucer is accused by the god of love for his translation of the _Romance of the Rose_, Alcestis defends him by enumerating his other works, which include: "many an ympne for your halydayes, That highten Balades, Roundels, Virelayes." (B-text, ll. 422 f.)