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

                                
                                  He roos / to wenden on his pilgrymage
                                
                                  Vn to the blisful / Scitherea benygne
                                
                                  I mene Venus / honurable and digne
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                                  And in hir hour / he walketh forth a paas [folio 30a] 
                                
                                  Vn to the lystes / ther hir temple was
                                
                                  And down he kneleth / and with humble cheere
                                
                                  And herte soor / he seyde as ye shal heere
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                                  ¶ ffaireste of faire / o lady myn Venus
                                
                                  Doghter of Ioue / and spouse to Vulcanus
                                
                                  Thow gladere / of the mount of Cytheron
                                
                                  ffor thilke loue / thow haddest to Adoon
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                                  Haue pitee / of my bittre teerys smerte
                                
                                  And taak myn humble prayere at thyn herte
                                
                                  ¶ Allas I ne haue no langage to telle
                                
                                  Theffecte. ne the tormentz of myn helle
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                                  Myn herte / may myne harmes nat biwreye
                                
                                  I am so confus / þat I kan noght seye
                                
                                  But mercy lady bright þat knowest wele
                                
                                  My thoght and seest what harmes þat I feele
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                                  Considre al this / and rewe vp on my soore
                                
                                  As wisly / as I shal for euere moore
                                
                                  Emforth my myght thy trewe seruant be
                                
                                  And holden werre / alwey with chastitee
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                                  That make I myn avow / so ye me helpe
                                
                                  I kepe noght of armes for to yelpe
                                
                                  Ne I ne axe noght / tomorwe / to haue victorie
                                
                                  Ne renoun in this cas / ne veyne glorie
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                                  Of prys of armes / blowen vp and down
                                
                                  But I wolde haue / fully possessioun
                                
                                  Of Emelye / and dye in thy seruyse
                                
                                  ffynd thow the manere / how / and in what wyse
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                                  I recche nat but it may bettre be
                                
                                  To haue victorie of hem / or they of me
                                
                                  So þat I haue / my lady in myn armes
                                
                                  ffor thogh so be / þat Mars is god of armes
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                                  Youre vertu is so greet in heuene aboue

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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 64
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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