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

                                
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                                  He to his hous is goon / with sorweful herte
                                
                                  He seeth / he may nat from his deeth asterte
                                
                                  Hym semed / that he felte his herte colde
                                
                                  Vp to the heuene / hise hondes he gan holde
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                                  And on his knowes bare / he sette hym doun
                                
                                  And in his rauynge / seyde his orisoun
                                
                                  ffor verray wo / out of his wit he breyde
                                
                                  He nyste what he spak but thus he seyde
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                                  With pitous herte / his pleynt hath he bigonne
                                
                                  Vn to the goddes / and first vn to the sonne
                                
                                  ¶ He seyde Appollo / god and gouernour
                                
                                  Of euery plaunte / herbe / tree / and flour
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                                  That yeuest after thy declynacion
                                
                                  To ech of hem / his tyme and his seson
                                
                                  As thyn herberwe / chaungeth / lowe or heighe
                                
                                  Lord Phebus / cast thy merciable eighe
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                                  On wrecche Aurelie / which þat am but lorn
                                
                                  Lo lord / my lady hath my deeth ysworn
                                
                                  With outen gilt but thy benygnytee
                                
                                  Vp on my dedly herte / haue som pitee
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                                  ffor wel I woot lord Phebus / if yow lest/ [folio 158a] 
                                
                                  Ye may me helpen / saue my lady best
                                
                                  Now voucheth sauf / þat I may yow deuyse
                                
                                  How þat I may been holpe / and in what wyse
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                                  ¶ Youre blisful Suster / lueyna the shene
                                
                                  That of the See / is chief goddesse and queene
                                
                                  Thogh Neptunus / haue deitee in the See
                                
                                  Yet Empiresse / abouen hym is she
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                                  Ye knowen wel lord / that right as hir desir
                                
                                  Is / to be quyked / and lighted of youre fyr
                                
                                  ffor which / she folweth yow / ful bisily
                                
                                  Right so the See / desireth naturelly
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                                  To folwen hire / as she þat is goddesse
                                
                                  Bothe in the See / and Ryuers moore and lesse
                                
                                  Wherfore lord Phebus / this is my requeste
                                
                                  Do this myracle / or do myn herte breste

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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 361
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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