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

                                
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                                  Toward the whiche daunce / he drow ful yerne
                                
                                  In hope / that som wisdom sholde he lerne
                                
                                  But certeynly / er he cam fully there ·
                                
                                  Vanysshed was this daunce / he nyste where
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                                  No creature say he / that bar lyf
                                
                                  Saue on the grene / he say sittynge a wyf
                                
                                  A fouler wight ther may no man deuyse
                                
                                  Agayn the knyght this olde wyf gan ryse
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                                  And seyde sire knyght heer forth ne lyth no wey
                                
                                  Tel me / what þat ye seken by youre fey
                                
                                  Par auenture / it may the bettre be
                                
                                  This olde folk konne muchel thyng quod she
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                                  ¶ My leeue moder / quod this knyght certeyn
                                
                                  I nam but deed / but if that I kan seyn
                                
                                  What thyng it is / that wommen moost desire
                                
                                  Koude ye me wisse / I wolde wel quyte youre hyre
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                                  ¶ Plight me thy trouthe / here in myn hand quod she
                                
                                  The nexte thyng that I requere thee
                                
                                  Thow shalt it do / if it lye in thy myght
                                
                                  And I wol telle it yow / er it be nyght
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                                  ¶ Haue here my trouthe / quod the knyght I graunte [folio 70b] 
                                
                                  ¶ Thanne quod she / I dar me wel auaunte
                                
                                  Thy lyf is sauf/ for I wole stonde ther by
                                
                                  Vp-on my lyf/ the queene wol seye as I
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                                  Lat see / which is the prouddeste of hem alle
                                
                                  That wereth on / a couerchief / or a calle
                                
                                  That dar seye nay / of that I shal thee teche
                                
                                  Lat vs go forth / with-outen lenger speche
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                                  Tho rowned she / a pistel in his ere
                                
                                  And bad hym to be glad / and haue no fere
                                
                                  ¶ Whan they be comen to the Court this knyght
                                
                                  Seyde / he hadde holde his day / as he had hight
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                                  And redy was his answere / as he sayde
                                
                                  fful many a noble wyf and many a mayde
                                
                                  And many a widwe / for þat they ben wise
                                
                                  The queene hir self / sittyng as Iustise

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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 158
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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