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

                                
                                  And if so be / thow wolt noght do me grace
                                
                                  Or if my destynee / be shape so
                                
                                  That I shal nedes / haue oon of hem two
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                                  As seend me hym / þat moost desireth me
                                
                                  Bihoold goddesse / of clene chastitee
                                
                                  The bittre teerys / þat on my chekes falle
                                
                                  Syn thow art mayde / and kepere of vs alle
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                                  My maydenhode thow kepe / and wel conserue
                                
                                  And whil I lyue / a mayde I wol thee serue
                                
                                  ¶ The fyres brenne / vp on the Auter cleere
                                
                                  Whil Emelie / is thus in hir prayere
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                                  But sodeynly / she seigh a sighte queynte
                                
                                  ffor right anon / oon of the fyres queynte
                                
                                  And quyked agayn / and after that anon
                                
                                  That oother fyr was queynt and al agon
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                                  And as it queynte / it made a whistlynge [folio 31b] 
                                
                                  As doon thise weete brondes / in hir brennynge
                                
                                  And at the brondes ende / out ran anoon
                                
                                  As it were / blody dropes many oon
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                                  ffor which / so soore agast was Emelye
                                
                                  That she was wel neigh mad / and gan to crye
                                
                                  ffor she ne wiste / what it signyfied
                                
                                  But oonly for the feere / thus hath she cryed
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                                  And weepe / þat it was pitee for to heere
                                
                                  ¶ And ther with al / Diane gan appeere
                                
                                  With bowe in honde / right as an hunteresse
                                
                                  And seyde doghter / stynt thyn heuynesse
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                                  Among the goddes hye / it is affermed
                                
                                  And by eterne word / writen and confermed
                                
                                  Thou shalt be wedded / vn to oon of tho
                                
                                  That han for thee / so muche care and wo
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                                  But vn to which of hem / I may noght telle
                                
                                  ffare wel / for I ne may no lenger dwelle
                                
                                  The fires / which þat on myn Auter brenne
                                
                                  Shul thee declaren / er þat thow go henne
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                                  Thyn auenture of loue / as in this cas

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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 67
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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