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

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¶ Ȝe bene oure lorde do wiþ ȝoure owen þinge Line 652 Riht as ȝowe liste axeþe no rede att me For as .I. left att home al my cloþinge Whan .I. first came to ȝowe riht so quod sche Line 655 Lest .I. my wil and al my liberte And toke ȝoure cloþinge where-fore .I. ȝowe preie Doþe ȝoure plesance .I. wil ȝoure lust obeie Line 658
¶ And certes if .I. had prescience Line 659 Ȝoure will to knowe ar ȝe ȝoure lust me tolde .I. wolde it do wiþ-outen necligence Bot nowe .I. wote ȝoure luste and what ȝe wolde Line 662 Al ȝoure plesance ferme and plesance .I. holde For wist .I. þat my deþe wolde do ȝowe ese Riht gladly wolde .I. deie ȝowe to plese Line 665
¶ Deþ maie nouht make no comparisone Line 666 Vnto owre loue and whan þis Markis seye Þe Countenance. of his wif he cast a-doune His eyȝen tuo and wonderþ þat sche maye Line 669 In paciens suffur al þis araye And forþe he goþ wiþ drery countenance Bot to his hert it was riht grete plesance Line 672
¶ Þis Ogel seriant in þe same wise Line 673 Þat he hir douhte cauht riht so he Or wers. if men wers can deuise Haþe hente hire son þat ful was of beute Line 676 And euer in oone so paciente was sche That sche no chiere made of heuinesse Bott kissed hir son and after gan it blesse Line 679
¶ Saue þis sche praide him if þat he myht Line 680 Hir litel son he wolde in erþe graue His tendre limes delicate to siht Fro foules and fro bestes forto saue [folio 122b] Line 683
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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1867-1879.

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