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

                                
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                                  The odure of floures and þe freisshe sight /
                                
                                  Wolde han made ony pensyf herte light [folio 162a] 
                                
                                  That euer was born / but if to gret siknesse /
                                
                                  Oþer to gret sorwe hyld it in distresse /
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                                  And after dynere gan þey to daunce
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                                  So ful it was of beaute with plesaunce /
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                                  And synge also but dorigen allone
                                
                                  Sche made alwey hire compleynt and hire mone
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                                  ffor sche ne saugh him on þe daunce go
                                
                                  þat was hire housbond and hir loue also
                                
                                  But naþeles sche moste a tyme abyde /
                                
                                  And with good hope sche let hir sorwe glyde
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                                  vpon þis daunce amonges oþer men
                                
                                  Daunced a squier biforen Dorigen
                                
                                  That freisscher was and iolyer of array
                                
                                  As to my dome þan is þe monþe of May
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                                  he syngeþ and daunceþ passyng any man
                                
                                  That is or was siþenes þis world bygan
                                
                                  Ther wiþ he was if men schulde him discryue /
                                
                                  On þe beste farynge man on lyue /
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                                  ȝong strong right vertuous riche and wys
                                
                                  And wel biloued and holden in gret prys
                                
                                  And schortliche if þe soþe telle I schal
                                
                                  vnwytyng of þis Dorigen at al
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                                  This lusty squyer seruaunt to venus
                                
                                  Which þat y-cleped was Aurelius
                                
                                  had loued hire best of eny creature
                                
                                  Tuo ȝeer and more as was his aduenture /
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                                  But neuer durste he telle hire of his greuance
                                
                                  Wiþoute cuppe he drank al his penaunce
                                
                                  he was dispeyred no þing durst he seye
                                
                                  Saue in his sawe somwhat wolde he wreye
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                                  his woo as in general compleynyng
                                
                                  he sayde he louede and was biloued noþing
                                
                                  Of such matiere made he many layes
                                
                                  Songes compleigntes roundeletis virrelayes

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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 357
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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