The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  So tenderly þat no þinge eyled me
                                
                                  .I. wist nouht what was aduersite
                                
                                  Til .I. kouþe flie ful hihe vnder þe skye
                                
                                  Tho dwelled a tarselet me fast bye
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                                  Þat semed wele of al gentillesse
                                
                                  Al were he ful of treson and of falsenesse
                                
                                  It is wrapped vnder humble charite
                                
                                  And vnder hiewe of trowþe and in suche manere
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                                  Vnde[r] plesance and vnder besi peine
                                
                                  Þat no wyht couþ haue wende he couþ feyne
                                
                                  So depe in greine he deiede his coloures
                                
                                  Riht as a serpent hideþ him vnder floures
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                                  til he may se his time for to bite
                                
                                  Riht so þis god of loue Ipocrite
                                
                                  Doþe so his cerimonijs and obeiceances
                                
                                  And keped in semblant al his obseruances
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                                  And souneþ in to gentilles of loue
                                
                                  As in to a tombe is al þe faire a-boue
                                
                                  And vnder is þe cours suche as .I. wote
                                
                                  Swyche was þis ypocrit boþe colde and hoote
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                                  And in þis wise he serued his entent
                                
                                  þat saue þe fende no man wist what he mente
                                
                                  Til he so longe had wepen a[n]d compleyned [folio 85b] 
                                
                                  And mony a ȝere his seruice to me feyned
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                                  Til þat myne herte to pytous and to nyce
                                
                                  Al Innoce of his crowel malice
                                
                                  For-fered of his deþ as þouht me
                                
                                  Vpon his oþes and his surete
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                                  Graunted him loue vpon þis condicione
                                
                                  þat euer mo myn honoure and renoune
                                
                                  Were saued boþ priue and aperte
                                
                                  This is to seine þat after his desert
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                                  .I. ȝaf him al myn herte and al myn þouht
                                
                                  God woote and he and oþer wise nouht
                                
                                  And toke his hert in chaunge of myne for aye
                                
                                  Bot soþe is seide gon siþen mony a daye

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 208
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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