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

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¶ And whil that the Organs / maden melodie Line 134 To god allone / in hir herte / thus soong she O·lord my soule / and eek my body gye Vnwemmed / lest that I confounded be Line 137 And for his loue / that deyde vp on the tree Euery seconde / and thridde day she faste Ay biddyng in hir orisons ful faste Line 140
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[ [Rats.] [folio 167b] Th]e nyght cam / and to bedde moste she gon With hire housbonde / as ofte is the manere And priuely / to hym she seyde anon O swete / and wel biloued spouse deere Line 144 Ther is a conseil / and ye wolde it heere Which that right fayn / I wolde vn to yow seye So that ye swere / ye shul it nat biwreye Line 147
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¶ Valerian gan faste / vn to hir swere Line 148 That for no cas / ne thyng þat myghte be He sholde neuere mo biwreyen here And thanne at erst/ to hym seyde she Line 151 I haue an Aungel / which that loueth me That with gret loue / wher so I wake or slepe Is redy ay / my body for to kepe Line 154
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¶ And if that he / may feelen out of drede Line 155 That ye me touche / or loue in vileynye He right anon / wol sleen yow with the dede And in youre youthe / thus ye shullen dye Line 158 And if that ye / in clene loue me gye He wol yow loue as me / for youre clennesse And shewe to yow / his ioye and his brightnesse Line 161
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The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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