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

                                
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                                  If þat I lakke or non in þis matere
                                
                                  Mayus þat sitt wiþ so benigne a cheere
                                
                                  hire to beholde it semed fayerye
                                
                                  Queene Ester loked neuer wiþ such an yhe
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                                  On assuer so meke a look haþ sche
                                
                                  I may ȝou nouȝt deuyse al hire beaute
                                
                                  But þus moche of hir beaute telle I may
                                
                                  þat sche was like þe brighte morwe of may
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                                  ffulfilde of beaute and of plesaunce
                                
                                  þis Ianuarye is rauyssht in a traunce
                                
                                  And at euery tyme he loked on hire face /
                                
                                  But in his herte he gan hire to manace
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                                  þat he þat night in armes wolde hir streyne
                                
                                  harder þan euyr parys did Eleyne
                                
                                  But naþeles ȝit had he gret pite
                                
                                  þat þilke night offenden hire moste he
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                                  And þouȝt allas O tender creature
                                
                                  Now wolde god ȝe mighte wel endure
                                
                                  Al my corrage / it is so scharpe and kene
                                
                                  I am agast ȝe schullen it nat sustene
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                                  But god forbede þat I did al my myght
                                
                                  Now wolde god þat it were waxen nyght
                                
                                  And þat þe night wolde lasten eueremo
                                
                                  I wolde þat al þis poeple were a go
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                                  And finally he doþ alle his labour
                                
                                  As he best mighte sauynge his honour [folio 151b] 
                                
                                  To hasten hem fro þe mete in subtil wise
                                
                                  þe tyme came þat resoun was to ryse
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                                  And after þat men daunce and drynke faste
                                
                                  And spices al aboute þe hous þay caste
                                
                                  And ful of ioye and blisse is euery man
                                
                                  Al but a squyer þat highte damyan
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                                  Which karf byforn þe knight many a day
                                
                                  he was so rauysshed on his lady may
                                
                                  That for þe verray peyne he was neyȝ wood
                                
                                  Almost he swelt and swowned þer he stood

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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 335
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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