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

                                
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                                  Assembled been / this answere for to here
                                
                                  And afterward / this knyght was bode appere
                                
                                  To euery wight comanded was silence
                                
                                  And that the knyght sholde telle in audience
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                                  What thyng that worldly wommen louen best
                                
                                  This knyght ne stood nat stille as dooth a best
                                
                                  But to his question / anon answerde
                                
                                  With manly voys / that al the court it herd
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                                  ¶ My lige lady / generally quod he
                                
                                  Wommen desire / to haue souereyntee
                                
                                  As wel / ouer hir housbonde / as hir loue
                                
                                  And for to been in maistrie / hym aboue
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                                  This is youre mooste desir / thogh ye me kille
                                
                                  Dooth as yow list I am here at youre wille
                                
                                  ¶ In al the Court ne was ther wyf ne mayde
                                
                                  Ne wydwe / that contraryed that he sayde
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                                  But seyden / he was worthy han his lyf
                                
                                  ¶ And with that word / vp stirte that olde wyf
                                
                                  Which that the knyght say sittyng on the grene
                                
                                  Mercy quod she / my souereyn lady queene
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                                  Er that youre Court departe / do me right
                                
                                  I taughte this answere / vn-to the knyght
                                
                                  ffor which / he plighte me his trouthe there
                                
                                  The firste thyng I wolde hym requere
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                                  He wolde it do / if it laye in his myght [folio 71a] 
                                
                                  Bifore the court thanne preye I thee sire knyght
                                
                                  Quod she / that thow me take vn-to thy wyf
                                
                                  ffor wel thow woost that I haue kept thy lyf
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                                  If I seye fals / sey nay vp-on thy fey
                                
                                  ¶ This knyght answerde / allas and weilawey
                                
                                  I woot right wel / that swich was my biheste
                                
                                  ffor goddes loue / as chees a newe requeste
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                                  Taak al my good / and lat my body go
                                
                                  ¶ Nay thanne quod she / I shrewe vs bothe two
                                
                                  ffor thogh þat I be foul / old / and poore
                                
                                  I nolde for al the metal / ne for oore

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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 159
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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