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

                                
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                                  That saue his wyf / ther wiste of it na mo
                                
                                  He loued hire moost and trusted hire also
                                
                                  He preyed hire / that to no creature
                                
                                  She sholde tellen / of his diffigure
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                                  ¶ She swoor hym nay / for al this world to wynne
                                
                                  She nolde do / that vileynye / or syn
                                
                                  To make hir housbonde / han so foul a name
                                
                                  She nolde nat telle it for hir owene shame
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                                  But nathelees / hir thoughte þat she dyde
                                
                                  That she so longe / sholde a conseil hyde
                                
                                  Hir thoughte / it swal so soore aboute hir herte
                                
                                  That nedely / som word / hir moste asterte
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                                  And sith / she dorste nat telle it to no man
                                
                                  Doun to a Marys / faste by she ran
                                
                                  Til she cam there / hir herte was a fyre
                                
                                  And as a Bitore / bombleth in the Myre
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                                  She leyde hir mouth / vn-to the water down [folio 70a] 
                                
                                  Biwrey me nat thow water with thy sown
                                
                                  Quod she / to thee I telle it and namo
                                
                                  Myn housbonde / hath longe Asses erys two
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                                  Now is myn herte al hool / now it is oute
                                
                                  I myghte no lenger / kepe it out of doute
                                
                                  Heere may ye see / thogh we a tyme abyde
                                
                                  Yet out it moot we kan no conseil hyde
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                                  The remenant of the tale / if ye wol heere
                                
                                  Redeth Ouyde / and ther ye may it leere
                                
                                  ¶ This knyght of which my tale is specially
                                
                                  Whan that he say / he myghte nat come ther by
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                                  This is to seye / what wommen louen moost
                                
                                  With-Inne his brest ful sorweful was the goost
                                
                                  But hom he gooth / he myghte nat soiorne
                                
                                  The day was come / that homward moste he torne
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                                  And in his wey / it happed hym to ryde
                                
                                  In al this care / vnder a fforest syde
                                
                                  Wher as he say / vp on a daunce go
                                
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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 157
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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