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

                                
                                     [6-text p 501] 
                                  
                                  he for his lady wrouȝt er sche were wonne
                                
                                  ffor sche was on þe fairest vnder sonne [folio 159b] 
                                
                                  And eek þerto come of so heih kynrede
                                
                                  That wel vnneþes durst þis knight for drede
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                                  Telle hire his wo his peyne and his distresse
                                
                                  But atte laste sche for his worþinesse
                                
                                  And namely for his meke obeissance
                                
                                  haþ such a pite caught of his penaunce
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                                  That priuely sche felle of his acord
                                
                                  To take him for hir housbonde and hire lord
                                
                                  Of such lordschipe as men han ouer here wyues
                                
                                  And for to lede þe more in blisse here lyues
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                                  Of his fre wille he swor hire as a knight
                                
                                  þat neuer in his wille by day ne by night/
                                
                                  Ne schulde he vpon him take no maystrie
                                
                                  Aȝeins hire wille ne kuyþe hire Ialousye
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                                  But hire obeye and folwe hire wille in al
                                
                                  As ony louere to his lady schal
                                
                                  Saue þat þe name of souereynete
                                
                                  That wolde he han for schame of his degre
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                                  Sche þankeþ him and wiþ ful gret humblesse
                                
                                  Sche sayde sire seþþen of your gentilnesse
                                
                                  ȝe profre me to han a large reyne
                                
                                  Ne wolde neuer god betwixe vs tweyne
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                                  As in my gilt were eyþer werre or stryf
                                
                                  Sire I wil be ȝour owne humble trewe wijf
                                
                                  haue here my trouþe til þat myn herte breste
                                
                                  Thus be þey boþe in quiete and in reste
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                                  ffor o þing syres saufly dar I seye
                                
                                  That frendes euerich oþer mote obeye
                                
                                  If þay wole longe holde companye
                                
                                  loue wol nought ben constreigned by maystrie
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                                  Whan maystrie comeþ þe god of loue anon
                                
                                  Beteþ on his wynges and fare wel he is gon
                                
                                  loue is a þing as any spiryt fre
                                
                                  Wommen of kynde desiren liberte

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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 352
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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