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

                                
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                                  That loueþ þe as his owen hertes lyf
                                
                                  No þing luste he to be ymaginatyff [folio 164b] 
                                
                                  Of any wight hadde spoke while he was oute
                                
                                  To hire of loue he made þer-of no doute
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                                  he nouȝt entendeþ to no such matere
                                
                                  But daunceþ Iustiþ and makeþ good cheere
                                
                                  As þus in Ioye and blisse I lete hem dwelle
                                
                                  And of þe swete Aurelyus wol I telle
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                                  In langure and in furious tormentz þus
                                
                                  Tuo ȝer and more lay wrecche aurelius
                                
                                  Or ony foot on erþe he mighte gon
                                
                                  No confort in þis tyme nade he non
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                                  Saue of his broþer which þat was a clerk
                                
                                  he knew of al þis wo and of al þis werk
                                
                                  ffor to non oþer creature certeyn
                                
                                  Of þis matiere ne durste he no word seyn
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                                  vnder his brest he bar it more secre
                                
                                  Then euer did Pamphilius for Galathe
                                
                                  his brest was hole wiþouten for to sene
                                
                                  But in his herte was ay þe arwe kene
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                                  And wel ȝe knowen þat a sore sauure
                                
                                  In surgerie ful perilous is þe cure
                                
                                  But man might touche þe arwe or come þerby
                                
                                  his broþer wepeþ and wayleþ priuyly
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                                  Til atte laste him felle in remembraunce
                                
                                  That whiles he was at Orlyaunce in ffraunce
                                
                                  As ȝonge clerkes þat ben likerous
                                
                                  To reden artes þat ben curious
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                                  Seken in euery halk and euery herne
                                
                                  Particuler sciences for to lerne
                                
                                  he him remembreþ vpon a day
                                
                                  At Orlyaunce in studye a book he say
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                                  Of magique naturell which his felawe
                                
                                  That was þat tyme a bachiler of lawe
                                
                                  Al were he þere to lerne anoþer craft
                                
                                  And priuely vpon his deske y-laft

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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 362
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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