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

                                
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                                  Howe þat he durst nouht his sorwe tell
                                
                                  þat languisseþ as fire doþe in hell
                                
                                  And deye seide he must as dide ekko
                                
                                  For Narsisus þat dorst nouht tell hir wo
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                                  In oþere maner þan ȝe here me seie
                                
                                  Ne dorst he nouht to hire his wo be-wreie
                                
                                  Saue perauentur sumtime att daunces
                                
                                  There ȝonge folke kepen her obseruaunces
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                                  It mai wel be he loked on hir face
                                
                                  In suche a wise as man þat Axeþ grace
                                
                                  Bot no þinge wist sche of his entent
                                
                                  Naþeles it happed er þei þens went
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                                  Be cause þat he was hire neiȝbore
                                
                                  And was a mon of worschippe and honoure
                                
                                  And had yknowen him of [[a later t after of]]  times ȝore
                                
                                  Thei fel in speche oft more and more
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                                  Vn-to his purpos drouhe Aurelius [folio 144b] 
                                
                                  And whan he sauhe his time he seid þus
                                
                                  Madame quod he be god þat þis werld maade
                                
                                  So þat .I. miht ȝoure hert glade
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                                  .I. wolde þat daie þat ȝoure Arnaragus
                                
                                  Wente on see þat .I. Aurelius
                                
                                  Hadde wente þat .I. scholde neuer haue com aȝeine
                                
                                  For wele .I. wote my seruise is in veine
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                                  Mi guerdon nys bot bristinge of myn herte
                                
                                  Ma dame reweþ vpon my peines smarte
                                
                                  For as wiþ a swerd ȝe maie me sle or saue
                                
                                  Here att ȝoure fote god wolde þat .I. were graue
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                                  .I. haue as nowe no leiser for to seie
                                
                                  Haue merci on me swete or ȝe wolne do me deye
                                
                                  Sche gan to loke vpon Aurelius
                                
                                  Is þis ȝoure wil quod sche and seie ȝe þus
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                                  Neuer eft quod sche wist .I. what ȝe ment
                                
                                  Bott nowe Aurely .I. know ȝoure entent
                                
                                  Be þilke god þat ȝaue me soule and lif
                                
                                  Ne schal .I. neuer be vntrewe wiff

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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 358
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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