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

                                
                                  And yet it were a game / to heren al
                                
                                  To hym þat meneth wel / it nere no charge
                                
                                  But it is good / a man be at his large
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                                  ¶ Hir brighte heer was kembed / vntressed al
                                
                                  A corone / of a grene ook cerial
                                
                                  Vp on hir heed was set ful fair and meete
                                
                                  Two fyres / on the Auter gan she beete
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                                  And dide hir thynges / as men may biholde
                                
                                  In Stace of Thebes / and othere bokes olde
                                
                                  Whan kyndled was the fyr / with pitous cheere
                                
                                  Vn to Diane / she spak / as ye may heere
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                                  ¶ O chaste goddesse / of the wodes grene [folio 31a] 
                                
                                  To whom / bothe heuene / and erthe / and See [.i. mare]  is seene
                                
                                  Queene of the regne of Pluto / derk and lowe
                                
                                  Goddesse of maydenes / þat myn herte hast knowe
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                                  fful many a yeer / and woost what I desire
                                
                                  As keepe me / fro thy vengeance and thyn Ire
                                
                                  That Attheon / aboghte crewelly
                                
                                  Chaste goddesse / wel wostow þat I
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                                  Desire / to been a mayden / al my lyf
                                
                                  Ne neuere wol I be / no loue / ne wyf
                                
                                  I am thow woost yet of thy compaignye
                                
                                  A mayde / and loue huntyng and venerye
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                                  And for to walken / in the wodes wilde
                                
                                  And noght to been a wyf / and be with childe
                                
                                  Noght wol I knowe / compaignye of man
                                
                                  Now help me lady / sith ye may and kan
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                                  ffor tho thre formes / þat thow hast in thee
                                
                                  And Palamon / þat hath swich loue to me
                                
                                  And eek Arcite / þat loueth me so soore
                                
                                  This grace I praye thee / with oute moore
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                                  As seend[e] loue and pees / bitwix hem two
                                
                                  And fro me / turn awey / hir hertes so
                                
                                  That al hir hote loue / and hir desir
                                
                                  And al hir bisy torment and hir fyr
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                                  Be queynt and turned in another place

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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 66
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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