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

                                
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                                  And ches hire of his owen autorite
                                
                                  For loue is blinde al daie and maie nouht se
                                
                                  And whan þat he was in þe bedde brouhte
                                
                                  He purtreide in his hert and in his þouhte
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                                  Her fressche beute and hire age tendre
                                
                                  Her myddel small and hir armes longe and sklender
                                
                                  Hire wise gouernance and hir grete gentilnesse
                                
                                  Here wommanlye bereinge and hire gentil sadnesse
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                                  And whan þat he was fro hire condescendid
                                
                                  Him þouht his þouht miht nouȝt bue amendid
                                
                                  For whan þat he him selfe concludid hadde
                                
                                  Him þouht euery oþer mannes witte so badde
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                                  þat impossible it were to replie
                                
                                  Aȝeins his choys þis was his fantasie
                                
                                  His frendes sent he to att his instance
                                
                                  And preide hem to done him þat plesance
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                                  þat hastely þei wolden done to him come
                                
                                  He wolde a-brigge her laboure al and somme
                                
                                  It nedeþ no more for him to gone or ride
                                
                                  He was apoynted þere he wolde abide
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                                  Placebo cam and eke his frendes sone
                                
                                  And alder first he badde hem al a bone
                                
                                  þat none of hem none argumentez make
                                
                                  Aȝeines þe purpos whiche þat he haþ take
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                                  Whiche purpos was plesant to god seide he
                                
                                  And verrei grounde of his prosperite
                                
                                  He seide þer was a maiden in þe toune
                                
                                  Whiche þat of beute hadde grete renoune
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                                  Al were it so sche were of smal degre
                                
                                  Sufficeþ him hire ȝouþe and hire beaute
                                
                                  Whiche maide he seide schold be his wyf
                                
                                  To lede in ese and in holynesse his lif
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                                  And þonked god þat he myht haue hire al
                                
                                  That no whight wiþ his blisse parten schal
                                
                                  And preide hem to laboure in þis nede
                                
                                  And schapid þat he failed nouht to spede

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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 331
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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