The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  And happed that allone / as he was born
                                
                                  He say a mayde / walkynge hym biforn
                                
                                  Of which mayde / anoon maugree hir hed
                                
                                  By verray force / he rafte hir maydenhed
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                                  ffor which oppressioun / was swich clamour
                                
                                  And swich pursuyte / vn-to the kyng Arthour
                                
                                  That dampned was this knyght/ for to be deed
                                
                                  By cours of lawe / and sholde han lost his heed
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                                  Par auenture / swich was the statut tho [folio 69a] 
                                
                                  But that the queene / and othere ladyes mo
                                
                                  So longe preyden / the kyng of grace
                                
                                  Til he his lyf / hym graunted in the place
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                                  And yaf hym to the queene / al at hir wille
                                
                                  To chese / wheither she wolde / hym saue or spille
                                
                                  The queen thanked the kyng with al hir might
                                
                                  And after this / thus spak she to the knyght
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                                  Whan that she saw / hir tyme vp-on a day
                                
                                  Thow standest yet quod she / in swich array
                                
                                  That of thy lyf / yet hastow no suretee
                                
                                  I graunte thee lyf / if thow kanst tellen me
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                                  What thyng is it þat wommen moost desiren
                                
                                  Be war / and keepe thy nekke boon from Iren
                                
                                  And if thow kanst nat / tellen me anon
                                
                                  Yet wol I yeue thee leue / for to gon
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                                  A twelf monthe and a day / to seche and lere
                                
                                  An answere suffisant in this matere
                                
                                  And seuretee wol I han / er that thow pace
                                
                                  Thy body / for to yelden / in this place
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                                  ¶ Wo was this knyght/ and sorwefully he siketh
                                
                                  But what he may nat doon / al as hym liketh
                                
                                  And atte laste / he chees hym for to wende
                                
                                  And come agayn / right at the yeres ende
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                                  With swich answere / as god wolde hym purueye
                                
                                  And taketh his leue / and wendeth forth his weye
                                
                                  He seketh euery hous / and euery place
                                
                                  Where as he hopeth / for to fynde grace

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 155
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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