The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  And ches hir of his owen auctorite
                                
                                  ffor loue is blynd alday and may not se
                                
                                  And whan þat he was in þe bed y-brought
                                
                                  he purtreyed in his herte and in his þought
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                                  hire freisshe beaute / and hir age tender
                                
                                  hire myddel smal and hir armes long and sklender
                                
                                  hire wise gouernaunce and hire grete gentilnes
                                
                                  hir wommanly berynge and hire sadnes
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                                  And whan þat he was fro hire condescended
                                
                                  him þouȝte his þouȝt might nouȝt ben amended
                                
                                  ffor whan þat he himself concluded hadde
                                
                                  him þouȝt euer oþer mannes witte so badde
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                                  þat inpossible it were to replye
                                
                                  aȝein his choys þis was his fantasye
                                
                                  his frendes sent he to at his instance
                                
                                  And preyed hem to don him þat plesaunce
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                                  þat hastely þey wolden don him come /
                                
                                  he wolde abregge here labour alle and some
                                
                                  Needeþ nomore for him to goon or ryde
                                
                                  he was apoynted þer he wolde abyde
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                                  Placebo cam and eek his freendes sone
                                
                                  And alþer first he bad hem alle a bone
                                
                                  þat non of hem non argumentes make
                                
                                  Aȝeins þe purpos which þat he haþ take [folio 149b] 
                                
                                  Which purpos was plesaunt/ to god sayde he
                                
                                  And verray ground of his prosperite
                                
                                  he sayde þer was a mayden in þe toun
                                
                                  Which þat of beaute hadde gret renoun
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                                  Al were it so sche were of smal degre
                                
                                  Sufficeþ him hire ȝouþe and hire beaute
                                
                                  Which mayde he seyde schulde ben his wiff
                                
                                  To lede in ese and holynesse his lijf
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                                  And þanked god þat he might han hire al
                                
                                  þat no wight wiþ his blisse parten schal
                                
                                  And preyed hem to laboure in þis neede /
                                
                                  And schaped þat he fayled not to spede

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 331
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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