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

                                
                                     [6-text p 469] 
                                  
                                  .I. ȝeue it ȝowe make charters as ȝowe liste
                                
                                  þis schal be do to morwe ar sonne ariste
                                
                                  So wissely god my soule bringe in blisse
                                
                                  And pray ȝowe on Couenant þat ȝe me kesse
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                                  And þouhe þat .I. be Ielouse wite me nowht
                                
                                  Ȝe buen so depe enprinted in myne þouht
                                
                                  þat whan þat .I. considere ȝoure beute
                                
                                  And þere-wiþ-al þe vnlikly elde of me
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                                  .I. maie nouht sertes þouhe .I. schold deie
                                
                                  For-bere to be oute ȝoure compaigne
                                
                                  For verrei loue þis is wiþ-outen doute
                                
                                  Nowe kisse me wif and lat vs rome aboute
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                                  ¶ This frisshe maye whan sche þis wordes herde
                                
                                  Benigly to Ianuare ansewerd
                                
                                  Bot first & forwarde sche began to wepe
                                
                                  .I. haue quod sche a soule for to kepe
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                                  As wele as ȝe and also myne honour [folio 140a] 
                                
                                  And of my wifhede þilke tender floure
                                
                                  Whiche þat .I. haue assured in ȝoure honde
                                
                                  Whan þat þe preste to ȝowe my body bonde
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                                  Wharfor .I. wil ansewer in þis manere
                                
                                  Wiþ loue of ȝoue my lorde so dere
                                
                                  .I. praie god þat neuer dawe þat day.
                                
                                  Þat .I. ne sterue as foule as womman maye
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                                  Ȝif euer y do vnto my kynne þat schame
                                
                                  Or elles .I. enpeire so my name
                                
                                  þat .I. be ffalse and if .I. do þat lake
                                
                                  To stripe me and putte me in a sake
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                                  And in þe next Riuere do me drenche
                                
                                  .I. am a gentil womman and no wenche
                                
                                  Whi speke ȝe þus but men ben euyre vntrewe
                                
                                  And wemmen haue repreef of ȝowe ay newe
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                                  Ȝe can noon oþere continaunce yleue
                                
                                  Bot speke to us as vntreste and in repreue
                                
                                  And wiþ þat worde sche sauhe wher Damyane
                                
                                  Satt in þe busche and knele he beganne

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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 347
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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