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

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And whiles þe Orgles maden melodye Line 134 To god allone þus in herte sang sche O lord my soule and eek my body gye Vnwemmed lest þat I confoundid be Line 137 And for his loue þat deyde vpon a tre Euery secounde or þridde day sche faste Ay byddyng in hire orisons ful faste Line 140
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The night com and to bedde sche moste gon Line 141 Wiþ hire housbonde as often is þe manere And pryuely sche sayde to him anon O swete and wel biloued spouse dere Line 144 Ther is a counseil and ȝe wolde it here / Which þat right fayn I wol vnto ȝou sayn So þat ȝe me assure it nought to bewrayn [folio 172b] Line 147
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Valerian gan faste / vnto hire swere Line 148 That for no cas ne þing þat mighte be he scholde for no þing neuer bywreyen hire And þanne at erst þus to him sayde sche Line 151 I haue an aungel which þat loueþ me That wiþ gret loue wheþer so I wake or slepe Is redy ay my body for to kepe Line 154
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And if þat he may felen out of drede Line 155 [that ye me touche / or loue in vilonye [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14]] he right anoon wol sle yow / with the dede and in youre youthe / thus shul ye die Line 158 and if that ye / in clene loue me guye] he wolde ȝou loue as me for ȝour clennesse And schewe ȝou of his ioye and his brightnesse Line 161
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The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,
1868-[1869]

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