The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  In word ne werk as fer as I haue wit
                                
                                  I wele been his to whom that I am knyt
                                
                                  Take this for fynal answere as of me
                                
                                  But aftyr in pleyn thus seyde sche
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                                  Aurele quod sche bi hye god a-boue
                                
                                  Ȝit wolde I grauntyn ȝow to been ȝoure loue
                                
                                  Syn I se ȝow so pitously compleyne
                                
                                  Loke what day that endelyng Breteyne
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                                  Ȝe remoue alle the rolkis ston be ston
                                
                                  That they ne lette schyp [[first schpp]]  ne boot to goon
                                
                                  I seye whan ȝe han mad the cost so clene [folio 290b] 
                                
                                  Of rokkis that there ne is no stoon I-seene
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                                  Thanne wele I loue ȝow best of ony man
                                
                                  Haue here myn trouthe In al that euere I can
                                
                                  Is there noon othis grace quod he
                                
                                  No be that lord quod sche that makede me
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                                  ffor wel I wot that It schal neuere betyde
                                
                                  Lat sweche folyis out of ȝoure herte slyde
                                
                                  What deynte schulde a man han in his lyf
                                
                                  ffor to go loue a-noþer manys wyf
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                                  That hath hire body whan so that hym lykyth
                                
                                  Aurelius ful ofte sore sykyth
                                
                                  Wo was aurelius whan that he this herde
                                
                                  And with a sorweful herte he thus answerde
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                                  Madame quod he this were an Impossible
                                
                                  Thanne mote I deye on sodeyn deth horrible
                                
                                  And with that word he turnede hym a-non
                                
                                  Tho come here othere frendis manyon
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                                  And in the aleyijs they romede vp & doun
                                
                                  And no thyng wiste of this conclusioun
                                
                                  But sodeynly begunne reuel newe
                                
                                  Til that the bryȝte sunne loste his hewe
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                                  ffor thorisonte refte þe sunne his lyȝt
                                
                                  This is as meche to seye as it was nyȝt
                                
                                  And hom they goon In Ioye & in solas
                                
                                  Saue only wreche Aurelius allas

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 338
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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