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

                                
                                     [6-text p 521] 
                                  
                                  ¶ O Teuta queen / thyn wyfly chastitee
                                
                                  To alle wyuys may a myrour bee
                                
                                  . . . . . [[Not in any Brit. Mus., Cambr., or Bodleian MS, or Christ-Church.]] 
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  Thus pleynede Dorigen a day or tweye
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                                  Purposynge euere that sche wolde deye
                                
                                  But natheles vp-on the thredde nyȝt
                                
                                  Hom cam Arueragus this worthy knyȝt
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                                  And axed hire why that sche weep so sore
                                
                                  And sche gan wepyn euere lengere the more
                                
                                  ¶ Allas quod sche that euere was I born
                                
                                  Thus haue I seyd quod sche thus haue I sworn
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                                  And tolde hym al as ȝe han herd be-fore
                                
                                  It nedith nat reherse ȝow no moore
                                
                                  This husbonde with glad cheere in frendely wyse
                                
                                  Answerede & seyde as I schal ȝow deuyse
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                                  Is there ought ellis / Dorigene but this
                                
                                  Nay nay quod sche god helpe me so as wis
                                
                                  This is to meche & it were godys wille
                                
                                  ȝa wyf quod he / lat slepyn & be stylle
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                                  [hit may be wele ȝit perauenture to say [Sloane MS 1685 folio 155b] 
                                
                                  ȝe sholen yuore trouthe holden by youre fay]
                                
                                  ffor god so wysely haue mercy vp-on me
                                
                                  I hadde wel leuere I-stekyd for to be
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                                  ffor verray loue whiche that I to ȝow haue
                                
                                  But ȝif ȝe schulde ȝoure trouthe kepe &  [[first haue]] saue
                                
                                  Trouthe is the heyeste thyng that man may kepe
                                
                                  And with that word he brast a-non to weepe
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                                  And seyde I ȝow forbede vp peyne of deth
                                
                                  That neuere whil ȝow lastyt lyf or breth
                                
                                  To wyght telle thow of this auenture
                                
                                  As I best may I wele myn wo endure
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                                  Ne make no cuntenaunce of heuynesse
                                
                                  That folk of ȝow may deme harm or gesse
                                
                                  And forth he clepith a squyer & a mayde
                                
                                  Goth forth a-non with Dorigene he sayde

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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 351
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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