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

                                
                                  Til it fil ones / in a morwe of May
                                
                                  That Emelye / þat fairer was to seene
                                
                                  Than is the lilie / vp on his stalke greene
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                                  And fressher than the May / with floures newe
                                
                                  ffor with the Rose colour stroof hir hewe
                                
                                  I noot which was / the fairer of hem two
                                
                                  Er it were day / as was hir wone to do
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                                  She was arysen / and al redy dight
                                
                                  ffor May wol haue / no slogardye a nyght
                                
                                  The seson pryketh / euery gentil herte
                                
                                  And maketh it out of his sleep to sterte
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                                  And seith arys / and do thyn obseruance
                                
                                  This maketh Emelye / haue remembrance
                                
                                  To doon honour to May / and for to ryse
                                
                                  Yclothed was she fressh / for to deuyse
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                                  Hir yelow heer / was broyded in a tresse
                                
                                  Bihynde hir bak a yerde long I gesse
                                
                                  And in the gardyn / at the sonne vp riste
                                
                                  She walketh vp and doun / and as hir liste
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                                  She gadreth floures / party white and rede
                                
                                  To make a subtil gerland for hir hede
                                
                                  And as an Aungel / heuenysshly she soong
                                
                                  ¶ The grete tour / þat was so thikke and strong
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                                  Which of the Castel / was the chief dongeon
                                
                                  Ther as the knyghtes / weren in prison
                                
                                  Of whiche I tolde yow / and tellen shal
                                
                                  Was euene ioynant / to the gardyn wal
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                                  Ther as this Emelye / hadde hir pleyyng
                                
                                  Bright was the sonne / and cleer / in that mornyng
                                
                                  And Palamon / this woful prisoner [folio 15b] 
                                
                                  As was his wone / by leue of his Gailler
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                                  Was risen / and romed in a chambre an heigh
                                
                                  In which / he al the noble Citee seigh
                                
                                  And eek the gardyn / ful of braunches greene
                                
                                  Ther as / the fresshe Emelye the sheene
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                                  Was in hir walk / and romed vp and down

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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 31
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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