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

                                
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                                  Towarde þe dawnce he drowhe him ȝerne
                                
                                  In hope þat som wisdome scholde he lerene
                                
                                  Bot certeinly ar he came fully þere
                                
                                  Vanyssched was þe daunce he wist nouht where.
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                                  No creature sawe he þat bare lif
                                
                                  Saue in þe grene he sawhe sittinge a wif
                                
                                  A fowler wight þei may no man devise [folio 99a] 
                                
                                  A-ȝein þe knyht þe olde wif gan arise
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                                  And seid sir knyht here forþe liþe no weye
                                
                                  Tel me what þat ȝe seken be ȝoure feye
                                
                                  Parauentur it maie þe better be [[bue, with u scratcht out]] 
                                
                                  This olde folke can muche þinge quod sche
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                                  My leue quod þis knyht serteine
                                
                                  .I. am bot dede bot if þat .I. can seine
                                
                                  Whatt þinge it is þat wemmen most desire
                                
                                  Couþe ȝe me wise .I. wold wele white ȝowre hire
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                                  Plyht me þi trouþe here in my honde quod sche
                                
                                  The next þinge þat .I. require þe
                                
                                  Thowe schalt it do if it ly in þi myht
                                
                                  And .I. wil tel it ȝowe ar it he nyht
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                                  Haue here my trouþe quod knyht .I. graunt
                                
                                  Þat quod sche .I. maye me wele auant
                                
                                  Thi lif is saue for .I. wil stonde þer bye
                                
                                  Vpon my lif þe qweene wil saie as .I.
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                                  Latt see whiche is þe proddest of hem al
                                
                                  That wereþ on a kercheue or a cal
                                
                                  þat dar sey nay of þat .I. schal ȝow teche
                                
                                  Lat vs go forþe wiþ-oute longer speche
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                                  Tho rouned sche a pistel in his ere
                                
                                  And bad him to be gladde and haue no fere
                                
                                  Whann þei be commen to þe courte þis knyht
                                
                                  Seid he had holde his daie as he had hiht
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                                  And redy was his ansewere as he seide
                                
                                  Foll [[? MS Fo or Fv]]  mony a noble wif and mony a maide
                                
                                  And mony a wedew for þat þei bu wise
                                
                                  The queene hire seluen sitt Iuge as Iustise

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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 242
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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