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

                                
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                                  The odur of floures and þe frisshe siht
                                
                                  Wolde han maade ony pensif man liht
                                
                                  That euer was borne bot if to grete sekenesse
                                
                                  Oþer to grete sorwe hilde it in distresse
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                                  And after dener gan þei to daunce
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                                  So ful it was of beute wiþ plesance
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                                  And singen also bot Dorigen songe alone
                                
                                  Sche made alweie here compleinte and hire mone
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                                  For sche ne sawhe him on þe daunce goo
                                
                                  þat was hir husbonde and hire loue also
                                
                                  Bot naþeles sche moste hire time a-bide [folio 144a] 
                                
                                  And wiþ goode hope lete sche here sorwe glide
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                                  Vpon þis daunce amonges oþere men
                                
                                  Daunced a swyer to-forn Dorigen
                                
                                  That frisscher was and Ioliere of araie
                                
                                  As to my dome þan is þe moneþ of maie
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                                  He singeþ and daunseþ passinge any oþer man
                                
                                  þat is or was seþþe þis werlde be-gan
                                
                                  þare-wiþ he was if men schold him discryue
                                
                                  On of þe beste faringe men on liue
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                                  ȝonge stronge riht vertuous ryche and wise
                                
                                  And wele beloued and holden in grete prise
                                
                                  And schortly if þe soþe tellen .I. schal
                                
                                  Vnweteinge of þis dorigen att all
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                                  This lusty swyero seruant to Venus
                                
                                  Whiche þat ycleped was aurelius
                                
                                  Had loued hire best of any creature
                                
                                  Two ȝere and more as was his aduenture
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                                  Bot neuer dorst he tellen hire of his greuance
                                
                                  Wiþ-outen cuppe he drank al his penance
                                
                                  He was dispeired noþinge dorst he saie
                                
                                  Saue in his soule sum what wolde he wraie
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                                  His woo as in general compleineinge
                                
                                  He seide he loued and was beloued no þinge
                                
                                  Of suche Matier maade he mony layes
                                
                                  Songes compleintes Roundeletis virrelayes

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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 357
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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