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

                                
                                     [6-text p 510] 
                                  
                                  þat þou next at þis apposicioun
                                
                                  Which in þe signe schal be of þe leoun [folio 164a] 
                                
                                  And preyed hire so gret a flood to brynge
                                
                                  That .v. fatheme at þe leste it ouer springe
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                                  þe hyeste rokke in armorik Britayne
                                
                                  And lete his flood endure ȝeres twayne
                                
                                  Thenne certes to my lady may I saye
                                
                                  holdeþ ȝoure hestes þe rokkes ben awaye
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                                  lord Phebus do þis myracle for me
                                
                                  Pray hire sche go no faster cours þan ȝe
                                
                                  I say ȝou þus pray ȝour suster þat sche go
                                
                                  None faster cours þan ȝe þis ȝeres tuo
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                                  Then schal sche be euer at þe fulle alway
                                
                                  And springe flood lasten boþe night and day
                                
                                  And but sche fouche sauf in such manere
                                
                                  To graunte me my lady souerein dere /
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                                  Preye hire to synken euery rokke a doun
                                
                                  In to hire owne darke Region
                                
                                  vnder þe grounde þer Pluto duelleþ Inne
                                
                                  Oþer neuer more schal I my lady wynne
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                                  Thy temple in Delphos wol I barfoot seeke
                                
                                  lord Phebus seeþ þe teeres on my cheeke /
                                
                                  And of my peyne haue compassion
                                
                                  And wiþ þat word in swowne he felle a doun
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                                  And long tyme he lay in a traunce
                                
                                  his broþer which þat knew of his penaunce
                                
                                  vp caught him and to bedde him broughte
                                
                                  Dispeyred in his torment and in his þought
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                                  Lo y þis woful creature lete lye
                                
                                  Chese he for me wheþer he wol lyue or dye
                                
                                  Arneragus wiþ hele and gret honour
                                
                                  As he was of Chyualry þe flour
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                                  Is comen home and oþere worþy men
                                
                                  O blisful art þou Dorigen
                                
                                  þat hast þin lusty housbonde in þin armes
                                
                                  þe freissche knight þe worþy man of armes

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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 361
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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