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

                                
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                                  That saue his wif þer wist þere-of no mo [folio 98b] 
                                
                                  He loued hir most and trist to hir also
                                
                                  He praide hir most þat vnto no creature
                                
                                  sche schold nouȝt tel of his disfigure
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                                  Sche swore him naye for al þis werld to wynne
                                
                                  Sche nold do; þat velany or þat synne
                                
                                  To make hir husbonde haue so foule a name
                                
                                  For reproueinge of him and fowle schame
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                                  Bot Naþeles hir þouht þat sche deide
                                
                                  þat sche so longe scholde a counsel hide
                                
                                  Hir þouht it satt so sore aboute hir hert
                                
                                  Þat nedely sum worde hir mot a-stert
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                                  And seþ sche dorste tel it to no man
                                
                                  Doune to a marese fast sche ranne
                                
                                  Til sche came þer hire hert was a fire
                                
                                  And as betoure bebleþ in þe myre
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                                  Sche laide hir mouþe in-to þe water downe
                                
                                  Be-wrye me nouht þou water wiþ þi soune
                                
                                  Quod sche . to þe .I. tel it and no mo
                                
                                  Myne husbonde haþe longe asses eres tuo
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                                  Nowe is myne hert al hole now it is owte
                                
                                  .I. myht no longer kep it oute of doute
                                
                                  Here mai ȝe see þouhe we a time abide
                                
                                  Ȝit oute it mot we mowe no counsel hide
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                                  Þe remenant of þe tale if ȝe wil here
                                
                                  Redeþ ovide and ȝe maie it lere
                                
                                  This knyht of wiche mi tale is speciali
                                
                                  Whan þat he sauh he miht nouht com þere bye
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                                  This to seie what wemmen louen most
                                
                                  Wiþ-inne his hert sorweful was þe goste
                                
                                  Bot home he goþe he miht nouht soiorne
                                
                                  The daie was come þat homward most he torne
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                                  And in his wei it happed him to ride
                                
                                  In all his care vnder a forest side
                                
                                  Where he sawhe on o daunce go
                                
                                  Of ladys foure and twenty and ȝit moo

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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 241
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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