Chaucer's The Somnour's Prologue: for Pardee

For, pardee, ye han ofte tyme herd telle

[pardee=by God, from French "Par Dieu"]

How that a frere ravyshed was to helle
In spirit ones by a visioun;
And as an angel ladde hym up and doun,
To shewen hym the peynes that the were,

[the= there]

In al the place saugh he nat a frere;