Note 613 — THE ARGUMENT.
Reading edition
Love will not be confined by maisterie: When maisterie comes, the lord of Love anon Flutters his wings, and forthwith is he gone. Chaucer.—Pope.
Hudibras, Part iii. Cant. i. 553:
Love that's too generous to abide To be against its nature tied, Disdains against its will to stay, But struggles out and flies away.—Wakefield.
Dryden's Aurengezebe:
'Tis true of marriage bands I'm weary grown, Love scorns all ties but those that are his own.—Steevens.
The passage cited by Pope from Chaucer is in the Franklin's Tale. Spenser copied and altered the lines, which led Wakefield to imagine that Pope had committed the double error of falsely imputing them to Chaucer, and quoting them incorrectly.