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

                                
                                  He ros to wenden on his pilgrimage
                                
                                  vnto þe blisful Citharea benigne
                                
                                  I mene Venus honorable and digne
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                                  And in here houre he walkeþ forþ a paas
                                
                                  vnto þe lystes þer hire temple was
                                
                                  And doun he kneleþ and wiþ humble chere
                                
                                  And herte sore he seyde as ȝe schal heere
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                                  ¶ ffairest of faire O lady myn Venus
                                
                                  Doughter to Ioue and spouse to Vulcanus
                                
                                  Thou glader of þe mount of Citheron
                                
                                  ffor þilke loue þou haddest to adon
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                                  Haue pite of my bittre teeres smerte /
                                
                                  and tak myn humble preier at þin herte
                                
                                  Allas I ne haue no langage to telle /
                                
                                  Theffectes ne þe torment of myn helle
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                                  Myn herte may myn harmes nought bewreye
                                
                                  I am so confuse þat I can not seye [folio 32a] 
                                
                                  But mercy lady bright þat knowest wele
                                
                                  My þought and seest what harmes þat I feele
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                                  Considere al þis and rewe vpon my soore
                                
                                  As wisly as I schal for euermore
                                
                                  Emforth my myght þi trewe seruant be
                                
                                  And holden werre alwey wiþ chastite
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                                  That I make myn avow so ȝe me helpe
                                
                                  I keepe nought of armes for to yelpe
                                
                                  Ne I ne axe nought to morwe to haue victorie
                                
                                  Ne renoun in þis caas ne veine glorie
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                                  Of pris of armes blowen vp and doun
                                
                                  But I wolde haue fully possessioun
                                
                                  Of emelye and dye in þi seruise
                                
                                  ffynde yow þe maner how and in what wise
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                                  I recche nat but it may bettre be
                                
                                  To haue victorie of hem or þei of me
                                
                                  So þat I may haue my lady in myn armes
                                
                                  ffor þough so be þat mars is god of armes
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                                  youre vertue is so gret in heuen aboue

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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 64
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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